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Re: nodes have authors


From: Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Subject: Re: nodes have authors
Date: 17 Feb 2002 11:33:22 -0800
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Jamie Gennis <gennis@purdue.edu> writes:

> On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 11:20, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Well, the reason against this is that translators are really just
> > mount points, and existing ls does *not* treat them differently.
> 
> That's true for some translators, but others are used more like devices,
> which does show up in ls output.

No, you're missing the point.

The underlying node is *not* displayed even there.  You should *still*
walk the translator, because it's the *translator* that knows "I'm a
device" and will report the right stat information for the device.

Thomas



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