Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Christophe Saout
2004-08-26T20:32:09Z

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Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 21:16 +0100 schrieb Jamie Lokier:

> > | Will it work out if "dir inside file" will only be visible when
> > referred as "file/."?
> >
> > I'm used to using ls symlink/. to get ls to show me the directory on
> > the far side of a symbolic link. That's a pretty analagous case to
> > the one we're discussing here, I think?
>
> By the way, do symlinks have metadata? Where do you find it? :)

Oops. :)

At least in reiser4 they don't have, or at least you can't access them.
ln -s foo bar; cd bar/metas shows me the content of foo/metas.

symlinks are special anyway. Their rights are 777. The only thing they
can have is an owner. No chance to do a symlink/metas/uid then. Hmm.

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