From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fix sysfs symlinks
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:07:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040416180750.GG24997@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404161803.i3GI3Lce011798@eeyore.valparaiso.cl>
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 02:03:21PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > Except that these "symlinks" are expected to follow the target upon
> > renames. Which means that we either need a very messy scanning of
> > the entire tree on every rename (obviously not feasible) or we need
> > to store pointer to target and regenerate the path. Which, in turn,
> > requires holding a reference.
>
> Sounds an awful lot like ordinary hard links...
a) to directories?
b) userland really wants (relative) pathname here
c) still would require pinning the target down, so that doesn't simplify
anything.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-16 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-13 12:40 Maneesh Soni
2004-04-13 13:36 ` viro
2004-04-14 6:40 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-14 7:02 ` viro
2004-04-14 7:17 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-14 7:27 ` viro
2004-04-15 8:17 ` Russell King
2004-04-15 10:38 ` viro
2004-04-15 15:19 ` Russell King
2004-04-15 16:10 ` Greg KH
2004-04-15 16:13 ` viro
2004-04-15 19:14 ` viro
2004-04-15 21:27 ` Greg KH
2004-04-17 6:15 ` Rusty Russell
2004-04-17 19:39 ` viro
2004-04-17 23:45 ` Rusty Russell
2004-04-15 22:02 ` Greg KH
2004-04-16 15:24 ` viro
2004-04-16 18:03 ` Horst von Brand
2004-04-16 18:07 ` viro [this message]
2004-04-16 22:37 ` Greg KH
2004-04-16 23:46 ` viro
2004-04-17 0:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-17 8:07 ` Russell King
2004-04-17 8:22 ` viro
2004-04-20 16:16 ` Greg KH
2004-04-21 10:11 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-22 21:37 ` viro
2004-04-23 8:52 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-23 9:26 ` viro
2004-04-29 13:03 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-29 15:41 ` viro
2004-04-30 10:05 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-30 10:13 ` [RFC 0/2] kobject_set_name - error handling Maneesh Soni
2004-04-30 10:14 ` [RFC 1/2] " Maneesh Soni
2004-04-30 10:17 ` [RFC 2/2] " Maneesh Soni
2004-05-04 13:08 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-30 12:48 ` [RFC 1/2] " Dmitry Torokhov
2004-05-04 5:39 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-04 9:19 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-07 22:25 ` Greg KH
2003-05-09 10:05 ` Maneesh Soni
2003-05-09 10:09 ` [RFC 2/2] sysfs_rename_dir-cleanup Maneesh Soni
2004-05-11 23:33 ` Greg KH
2004-10-07 5:16 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-10-07 5:38 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-14 19:10 ` Greg KH
2004-05-11 23:32 ` [RFC 1/2] kobject_set_name - error handling Greg KH
2004-04-17 0:15 ` [RFC] fix sysfs symlinks Greg KH
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