From: linux@sigint.cs.purdue.edu
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 symlink size
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:00:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011024160002.A190@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011024102050.A12112@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> <9r781a$q9n$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <9r781a$q9n$1@cesium.transmeta.com>; from hpa@zytor.com on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:24:10PM -0700
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:24:10PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> > I sent this to the autofs4 maintainer a while ago, but never heard back.
> > autofs4 doesn't return a size for the symlinks it creates, which is
> > inconsistent with other filesystems. (The Almquist shell uses the sizes
> > of path components to allocate buffers during a walk, so it can't traverse
> > autofs4-linked paths.)
>
> That's IMNSHO a bug in the Almquist shell, at least if autofs4 returns
> zero, but it's also a bug in autofs4.
True, ash could do things differently, but I don't think expecting the
filesystem to return correct metadata is a bug. Should we distrust stat(2)
and count the bytes in a file ourselves, just to be sure?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-24 20:59 UTC|newest]
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2001-10-24 15:20 linux
2001-10-24 20:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-10-24 21:00 ` linux [this message]
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