From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269434AbUHZTnT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:43:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269453AbUHZTkQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:40:16 -0400 Received: from ns2.arlut.utexas.edu ([146.6.211.1]:54283 "EHLO ns2.arlut.utexas.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269489AbUHZTir (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:38:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:36:17 -0500 From: Jonathan Abbey To: Denis Vlasenko Cc: Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , Diego Calleja , jamie@shareable.org, christophe@saout.de, christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <20040826193617.GA21248@arlut.utexas.edu> References: <200408262128.41326.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408262128.41326.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:28:41PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: | | Is it possible to sufficiently hide "dirs inside files" | so that old tools will be unable to see them? |=20 | I just checked: |=20 | ls -d /foo does lstat64("/foo", ...) | ls -d /foo/ does lstat64("/foo", ...) | but | ls -d /foo/. does lstat64("/foo/.", ...) |=20 | 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? Jon --=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- Jonathan Abbey jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Au= stin GPG Key: 71767586 at keyserver pgp.mit.edu, http://www.ganymeta.org/workkey= .gpg --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (SunOS) iD8DBQFBLjuxGI9EwHF2dYYRAragAJ9DcI5AB3TZLclfHo5e3Y5dS6JxdwCg0/6u AyQiinzuItKB7ATsWEZNni8= =3fHv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1--