Excerpts from transarc.external.info-afs: 13-Apr-94 X.500 cell names in
dfs "Rick Kissel"@ch.hp.com (469)
> if I try to do something like:
> ls /.../c=uk/o=hp/ou=hp8005/fs
> how do we ever get the cellname, "c=uk/o=hp/ou=hp8005", out of dfs? The
> kernel passes out a piece (slash delimited) at a time to the dfsbind
> helper, so how does the helper ever get the whole thing to pass to GDAD
> for resolution?
I have to ask why you're asking....
The system call layer passes the slash-delimited pieces to DFS, but it
re-assembles each prefix string before passing it to dfsbind. Thus, the
system call layer will successively pass in
c=uk
o=hp
ou=hp8005
fs
but DFS will build these up in successive queries to
c=uk
c=uk/o=hp
c=uk/o=hp/ou=hp8005
c=uk/o=hp/ou=hp8005/fs
for passing to dfsbind.
Craig
