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Re: Symlink, chrdev, blkdev translators
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: Symlink, chrdev, blkdev translators |
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Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:11:57 +0200 |
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:28:06PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> However, if these special cases were not there, filesystems could do "funny"
> things. Suppose for instance a node "foo" which is a symlink to "bar", where
> "bar" doesn't exist: We could have the filesystem server provide data to read
> requests on "foo", even though the normal Unix behaviour would be to return
> an error! ;)
We could implement the same weird behaviour in the /hurd/symlink translator,
so I don't see the difference. ;)
Thanks,
Marcus
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- Symlink, chrdev, blkdev translators, Ludovic Courtès, 2002/08/19
- Re: Symlink, chrdev, blkdev translators, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/08/19
- Re: Symlink, chrdev, blkdev translators, Patrick Strasser, 2002/08/19
- Re: Symlink, chrdev, blkdev translators, Ludovic Courtès, 2002/08/19
- Re: Symlink, chrdev, blkdev translators, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/08/19
- Re: Symlink, chrdev, blkdev translators, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/08/19
- Re: Symlink, chrdev, blkdev translators, Ludovic Courtès, 2002/08/20
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- Re: Symlink, chrdev, blkdev translators, Ludovic Courtès, 2002/08/20
- Re: Symlink, chrdev, blkdev translators, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/08/20