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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:17:48 +0200
From: Emil Larsson <d99-ela@nada.kth.se>
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To: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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Christophe Saout wrote:

>Am Freitag, den 27.08.2004, 01:45 +0400 schrieb Nikita Danilov:
>
>  
>
>> > At least in reiser4 they don't have, or at least you can't access them.
>>
>>They do.
>>
>> > ln -s foo bar; cd bar/metas shows me the content of foo/metas.
>>
>>That's because lookup for "bar" performs symlink resolution.
>>    
>>
>
>So I can't access them and it is pointless. ;-)
>
>BTW, I can do a cd metas/metas/metas/metas/plugin/metas... I don't think
>this makes sense. :)
>
>  
>
I prefer this one:

hepburn:/# mount
/dev/sda3 on / type reiser4 (rw)
hepburn:/# touch apa
hepburn:/# chmod +x apa
hepburn:/# cd apa
hepburn:/apa# ls
ls: reading directory .: Not a directory

So there is already file-as-dir with legacy "ls" - and it works just 
like people seem to want it to do with legacy apps. Not at all.

/Emil