From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Duane Griffin Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] vfs: plug some holes involving LAST_BIND symlinks and file bind mounts (try #5) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:13:58 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1258998084-26797-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> <20091123173616.75c3f600@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20091123224948.GB5598@shareable.org> <20091123181545.05ad004d@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20091123193426.55f1530a@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20091124012027.GA14645@shareable.org> <20091124062621.744beddb@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20091124120906.GA1700@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Miklos Szeredi , Jeff Layton , jamie@shareable.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk To: Pavel Machek Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.220.213]:54206 "EHLO mail-fx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932671AbZKXNNx (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:13:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091124120906.GA1700@ucw.cz> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2009/11/24 Pavel Machek : > On Tue 2009-11-24 12:53:09, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> I still believe leaving the current semantics and documenting them is >> the best option. > > I believe that current semantics is ugly enough that 'documenting' it > is not enough... and people want to port from other systems, too, not > expecting nasty surprises like this... Solaris 10 works the same way as Linux does now, so I don't think the porting argument gets you anywhere. > Pavel Cheers, Duane. -- "I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine" - Bob Dylan