> viro wrote:
>> if (*name == '/') {
>>if (*(name+1)=='/' && *(name+2)==':') {
>> name+=3;
>
> Pathname resolution is a hell of a fundamental thing and kludges
>like that are too ugly to be acceptable. If you can't make that clean
>and have to resort to stuffing "speci
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:34:15PM -0500, David Dabbs wrote:
> I'm working on something similar, but with alternate pathname resolution
> when the path begins with exactly two slashes. Only pseudocode here because
> I do not have access to my box:
>
> if (*name == '/') {
>if (*(name+1)
>viro wrote
>On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:49:22AM +0400, Alex Zarochentsev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch does not allow open(name, O_DIRECTORY) to be successful for
> non-directories in reiser4. It replaces ->i_op->lookup != NULL "is dir"
> check for the last path component by explicit S_ISDIR(->i_m
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:49:22AM +0400, Alex Zarochentsev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch does not allow open(name, O_DIRECTORY) to be successful for
> non-directories in reiser4. It replaces ->i_op->lookup != NULL "is dir" check
> for the last path component by explicit S_ISDIR(->i_mode) check.
>
