Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265515AbUAHQYJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:24:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265517AbUAHQYJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:24:09 -0500 Received: from nwkea-mail-1.sun.com ([192.18.42.13]:36282 "EHLO nwkea-mail-1.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265515AbUAHQYB (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:24:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:23:49 -0500 From: Mike Waychison Subject: Re: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs In-reply-to: <20040108122916.GA72001@dspnet.fr.eu.org> To: Olivier Galibert Cc: Kernel Mailing List Message-id: <3FFD8415.9000502@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=------------enigB8CC8934A63C29DAF0B98D72; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Accept-Language: en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime References: <3FFB12AD.6010000@sun.com> <3FFC8E5B.40203@sun.com> <3FFC8E5B.40203@sun.com> <20040108122916.GA72001@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1778 Lines: 52 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB8CC8934A63C29DAF0B98D72 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:55:23PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote: > >>Yes, an 'ls' actually does an lstat on every file. > > > I guess you haven't met the plague called color-ls yet. Lucky you. > > Most modern file browsers also seem to feel obligated to follow > symlinks to check whether they're dangling. A mis-click on "up" when > you're on your home directory could cause a beautiful mount-storm. Why would any file browser or even ls feel compelled to 'stat' something right after an 'lstat' says it is not a symbolic link though? -- Mike Waychison Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1 (650) 352-5299 voice 1 (416) 202-8336 voice mailto: Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM http://www.sun.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: The opinions expressed in this email are held by me, and may not represent the views of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --------------enigB8CC8934A63C29DAF0B98D72 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE//YQZdQs4kOxk3/MRAh5TAJ9o0dcaS8VFsPdlxfY77GuGIXO20gCeOmb5 9qtkXmyjgPDQpRAmh7rxekk= =b5rQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB8CC8934A63C29DAF0B98D72-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/