From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: viro@math.psu.edu, torvalds@transmeta.com,
linux@arm.linux.org.uk, ralf@gnu.ai.mit.edu,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@linuxia64.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] __emul_prefix() problem
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:23:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010918122314.A7015@caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200109172351.QAA29928@napali.hpl.hp.com>
In-Reply-To: <200109172351.QAA29928@napali.hpl.hp.com>; from davidm@hpl.hp.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:51:11PM -0700
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:51:11PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> I'm not sure there is a clean fix to this, but one proposal is
> attached below: it causes __emul_lookup_dentry() to ignore the
> alternate root for paths that resolve to a directory. This obviously
> could create other problems, but I suspect there is no solution that
> works 100% in all cases (the fundamental being that we now have two
> different root nodes...).
Looks sant to me and doesn't break Linux-ABI. For 2.5 I'd prefer
to somehow build a per-personality namespace. Al, do you have an
idea how to keep a secondary namespace alive over the whole uptime
so non-Linu binaries can switch to it all the time (implicitly)?
Christoph
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-18 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-17 23:51 __emul_prefix() problem David Mosberger
2001-09-18 10:23 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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