On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:22:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > And yes, the semantics can _easily_ be solved in very unixy ways. > > One way to solve it is to just realize that a final slash at the end > implies pretty strongly that you want to treat it as a directory. So what > you do is: > > - without the slash, a file-as-dir won't open with O_DIRECTORY (ENOTDIR) > - with the slash, it won't open _without_ O_DIRECTORY (EISDIR) > > Problem solved. Very user-friendly, and very intuitive.
That would solve the O_DIRECTORY issue, the dentry aliasing still needs work though with the semantics for link/unlink/rename. Maybe Hans & you should start 2.7 to work this out? :)
