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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Amit Gud <amitgud1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: file as a directory
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>Correct me if I'm wrong, but the best way I know whether a file should
>be treated as directory or as a file (atleast how I've implemented it)
>depends upon the context (how the file is accessed) in the user-space
>and this context is reflected in the kernel space in the flags of the
>struct nameidata. So ...

And there I see a problem! The open() call (kernel: sys_open) allows to open
both files and directories in the standard operation.
There is the O_DIRECTORY user-space flag, but which only says "it must be a
directory". So there's something missing to say "must be a file".

Hell will freeze over if a reiser4 "object" can be ANY type, blockdev,
chardev, symlink, <think something up>.


Jan Engelhardt
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