On 2006-08-11 at 12:07 +0300, Yossi Kreinin wrote: > In our network, home directories are mounted at /homes. Now supposed > someone wants to open a program in the Green Hills MULTI debugger. The file > selection dialog won't expand ~someone, so you have to type /homes/someone. > When the dialog sees /homes though, it helpfully tries to list the > directory, and almost always hangs up with the help of stale NFS file > handles. > > The solution to this problem is typing the pathname in portions, as in > "omes/someone", then going back and prepending "/h".
The solution to this surely is to fix amd.conf to turn off browsing the top-level mount-point /homes, so that readdir() will only show those which have been already mounted. The stat(), or implicit reference in a filename lookup, should populate it on-demand, much as for various /dev/ filesystems, or places where .snapshot only becomes visible when stat()d, or those old portal filesystems which let you put the hostname in as a directory name. -- VISTA: Viruses, Infections, Spyware, Trojans & Adware
