Daniel Phillips wrote:
It won't, the open for . is handled in the VFS, not the filesystem -
it will open the directory. (Without needing to be told it's a
directory via O_DIRECTORY.) If you do open(magicdev) you'll get the
device, because that's handled by magicdevfs.
You really mean
On Sunday 27 May 2001 15:32, Edgar Toernig wrote:
Daniel Phillips wrote:
It won't, the open for . is handled in the VFS, not the
filesystem - it will open the directory. (Without needing to be
told it's a directory via O_DIRECTORY.) If you do open(magicdev)
you'll get the device,
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:45:17PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
On Sunday 27 May 2001 15:32, Edgar Toernig wrote:
Daniel Phillips wrote:
I'm not claiming there isn't breakage somewhere,
you break UNIX fundamentals. But I'm quite relieved now because I'm
pretty sure that something