On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:07:37PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Jun 2010, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > The source of the problem appears to be in util/fusermount.c, lines
> > 599-605, where a check is performed to determine whether the current
> > directory (".") is readable. It is not at all clear to me why this
> > should be necessary, as we are about to chdir to the mount point
> > anyway.
>
> It's not clear whether this is needed or not. If you look at
> mount_fuse() the original CWD is restored after do_mount() and before
> add_mount().
>
> Currently add_mount() is called with the original working directory.
> If we didn't open the current directory then restoring it would not be
> possible.
I'm unclear why the current directory needs to be restored. After
calling do_mount(), the current directory is restored, then there are
a few cleanups and the program exits. Nothing is done in the current
directory.
Julian
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