From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: "C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@laptop.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -v4 00/14] fsnotify, dnotify, and inotify
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:04:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081222210410.GL28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c6d9bea0812221159h30b0501dm8f48d93e0cb53bfa@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:59:37PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> > 2) major vfs and every FS redesign me thinks.
>
> I'm not convinced of that. I'm pretty certain one could export
> symlinks /proc/<pid>/mountinfo/<dev>/<inode> -> <absolute path in
> processes' namespace> with very little trouble, and no violence done
> to the VFS, which already has an iget() function which does the heavy
> lifting.
There is no such thing as absolute path of inode *anywhere*, process
namespace or not. Not on any UNIX. Period. End of story.
Al, once again astonished by the ability of desktop developers to
post from the alternative realities they apparently inhabit...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-22 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-12 21:51 [RFC PATCH -v4 00/14] fsnotify, dnotify, and inotify Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 01/14] filesystem notification: create fs/notify to contain all fs notification Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 02/14] fsnotify: pass a file instead of an inode to open, read, and write Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 03/14] fsnotify: sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 04/14] fsnotify: use the new open-exec hook for inotify and dnotify Eric Paris
2008-12-13 15:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 05/14] fsnotify: unified filesystem notification backend Eric Paris
2008-12-13 2:54 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-13 15:01 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 06/14] fsnotify: add group priorities Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 07/14] fsnotify: add in inode fsnotify markings Eric Paris
2008-12-13 3:07 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-13 16:35 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-22 13:43 ` Al Viro
2008-12-22 14:45 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 08/14] fsnotify: parent event notification Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 09/14] dnotify: reimplement dnotify using fsnotify Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 10/14] fsnotify: generic notification queue and waitq Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 11/14] fsnotify: include pathnames with entries when possible Eric Paris
2008-12-13 3:19 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-13 16:42 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 12/14] fsnotify: add correlations between events Eric Paris
2008-12-18 22:28 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-22 2:40 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-22 9:01 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-22 20:06 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-12 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 13/14] inotify: reimplement inotify using fsnotify Eric Paris
2008-12-13 3:22 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-13 16:44 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-15 15:48 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-12 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 14/14] shit on top for debugging Eric Paris
2008-12-14 22:40 ` James Morris
2008-12-14 22:47 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-18 23:36 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 00/14] fsnotify, dnotify, and inotify C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-22 3:22 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-22 10:58 ` Niraj Kumar
2008-12-22 19:59 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-22 20:53 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-29 18:19 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-22 21:04 ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-12-22 23:08 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-22 23:20 ` Al Viro
2008-12-22 23:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-25 18:17 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-25 20:33 ` Al Viro
2008-12-26 0:58 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-26 1:44 ` Al Viro
2008-12-27 21:23 ` C. Scott Ananian
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