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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: David Dabbs <david@dabbs.net>
Cc: "'ReiserFS List'" <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"'Alex Zarochentsev'" <zam@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use S_ISDIR() in link_path_walk() to decide whether the last path component is a directory
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:26:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040913222618.GE23987@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040913213429.6813115CA8@mail03.powweb.com>

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:34:15PM -0500, David Dabbs wrote:
> I'm working on something similar, but with alternate pathname resolution
> when the path begins with exactly two slashes. Only pseudocode here because
> I do not have access to my box:
> 
>     if (*name == '/') {
>        if (*(name+1)=='/' && *(name+2)==':') {
>           name+=3;

	Pathname resolution is a hell of a fundamental thing and kludges
like that are too ugly to be acceptable.  If you can't make that clean
and have to resort to stuffing "special cases" (read: barfbag of ioctl
magnitude) into the areas that might be unspecified by POSIX, don't do it
at all.

	I don't like the amount of handwaving from Hans, but *that* is far
worse.  Vetoed.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-13 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-13 21:34 David Dabbs
2004-09-13 22:26 ` viro [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-13  7:49 Alex Zarochentsev
2004-09-13 15:43 ` viro

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