From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269297AbUHZSee (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:34:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269279AbUHZSeM (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:34:12 -0400 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:51142 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269328AbUHZSXs (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:23:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:20:42 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Rik van Riel Cc: Diego Calleja , christophe@saout.de, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <20040826182042.GU5733@mail.shareable.org> References: <20040826194010.548e4a4c.diegocg@teleline.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rik van Riel wrote: > > /bin could be separated (like linus said) but cat /bin/.compound could > > do it. This is the /etc/passwd Hans' example, I think: > > Arghhhh. I wrote it down to ridicule the idea and now people > are taking it seriously ;( > > It should be obvious enough that anything depending on the > kernel parsing file contents will lead to problems. This is one case where the kernel _isn't_ parsing file contents, but I agree it's ridiculous :) -- Jamie