Re: CLONE_NAMESPACE, links for dirs and mount(2) for normal users questions

[Remi Turk <remi@a2zis.com>]

Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> [Remi Turk]
> > Do I understand correctly that this means hardlinks to directories
> > (except . and ..) are fundamentally impossible in Linux?
> 
> Why do you want to be able to do that?  Use symlinks or loopback mounts
> and stay out of trouble.

Probably just because I'm crazy ;-)
Of course I could use symlinks or loopback mounts, but it itn't nearly
as much fun as a directory which really contains itself :-)

> > (I'm thinking about trying to write a garbage collected filesystem
> > with hardlinks to directories.)
> 
> Sounds like a lot of extra complexity.  Is this academic or do you have
> a practical use for it?

Acedemic.
Well, I might find some practical use for it some day.

(I got inspired by an old thread about garbage collecting filesystems
without a clear answer about whether it was possible to write one in
Linux
(http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0001.1/0410.html)
and the recent thread  "[BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir")

> 
> Peter

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