Re: O_NONBLOCK for regular files

2005-04-13 Thread Greg Banks
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:56, Trond Myklebust wrote: on den 13.04.2005 Klokka 10:45 (+1000) skreiv Greg Banks: There's now a patch to actually do it, see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-nfsm=111087383132762w=2 Does anyone want to give a firm yea or nea to this approach? I'd

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-13 Thread Jan Hudec
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:14:10 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: There are uses for both. For example today I was updating the tar ball which is used to create the var file system for a new chroot. I certainly want to see corretly setup owner/permissions when I look into that tar

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-13 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Aren't there some assumptions in VFS that currently make this impossible? I believe it's OK with VFS, but applications would be confused to death. Well, there really is one issue -- dentries have exactly one parent, so what do you do when opening a file with hardlinks as a directory? (In

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-13 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Look up the rather large linux-kernel linux-fsdevel thread silent semantic changes with reiser4 and it's followup threads, from last year. Wow, it's 700+ messages. I got through the first 40, and already feel dizzy :) It's already been tried. You will also find sensible ideas on what

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Miklos Szeredi wrote: Look up the rather large linux-kernel linux-fsdevel thread silent semantic changes with reiser4 and it's followup threads, from last year. Wow, it's 700+ messages. I got through the first 40, and already feel dizzy :) It's easier if you skip the ones by Hans and

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Miklos Szeredi wrote: Yet, the results from stat() don't distinguish the number spaces, and ls doesn't map the numbers to names properly in the wrong space. Well you can use ls -n. It's up to the tools to present the information you want in the way you want it. If a tool can't do that,

Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

2005-04-13 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Yet, the results from stat() don't distinguish the number spaces, and ls doesn't map the numbers to names properly in the wrong space. Well you can use ls -n. It's up to the tools to present the information you want in the way you want it. If a tool can't do that, tough, but

Re: [autofs] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Important update - autofs 4.1.4 release

2005-04-13 Thread Jeff Moyer
== Regarding [autofs] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Important update - autofs 4.1.4 release; [EMAIL PROTECTED] adds: raven On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Here is autofs 4.1.4. raven There were a couple of mistakes in the release. raven The kernel patches have been updated as there