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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH vfat] allow retrieving entries with trailing dots
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:06:25 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrxg9xri.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100313113150.GA11907@frolo.macqel> (Philippe De Muyter's message of "Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:31:50 +0100")

Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> writes:

>> No, this breaks consistency. With this patch, unlink("a."), then
>> open("a.", O_CREAT) and write(), the result depend on existent
>> files. This patch is providing two files on one name.
>
> To avoid that, we could remember that we have found a filename with a trailing
> dot (in that directory or in the whole disk), and if that's the case then
> we are allowed to create filenames with trailing dots.

It sounds like dirty hack, and it would make more complex situations.
And the user can umount/mount (or reboot, etc.) before open().

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-13 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10 12:32 Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-10 14:44 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 16:14   ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-10 17:16     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-10 23:58       ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-11  9:26         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-11 12:02           ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-11 12:41             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-13 11:31               ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-13 13:06                 ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2010-03-14 10:39                   ` [PATCH vfat] IOMEGA network drive compatibility Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-14 11:17                     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-03-14 14:13                       ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-14 14:52                         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-19 18:11 [PATCH] parport netmos 9845 & 9855 1P4S fixes Philippe De Muyter
2009-03-23  8:50 ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-03-23 14:00   ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-09-25 19:46     ` [PATCH RFC] vfat and Simon_&_Garfunkel-Wednesday_Morning,_3_a.m Philippe De Muyter
2009-09-29 10:05       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-09-29 10:25         ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-09-29 22:43           ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-09-30 11:02             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-09-30 22:19               ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-10-01 10:42                 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-02-08  9:39                   ` [PATCH vfat] allow retrieving entries with trailing dots Philippe De Muyter

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