Andreas Dilger wrote: >On May 22, 2002 18:33 +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > > >>It is a pity we don't have more folks like Rob working on Linux. >> >> > >I haven't read the whole paper, but at first glance it would appear >to be trivial to do this under Linux, because the dentries maintain such >an absolute path to a file. The only thing that appears to be needed >for this is the new syscall and the applications to actually use it. >The syscall just needs to walk the dentry tree upwards to generate the >full path, as is already done in the __d_path() function. > >Cheers, Andreas >-- >Andreas Dilger >http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ >http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > > > > > I am told that Viro feels it would break applications. I think the current .. handling should be considered a bug, and I don't really care what obscure applications are broken in return for fixing this commonly occuring bug.
Hans
