Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261370AbVDMPJA (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:09:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261368AbVDMPI7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:08:59 -0400 Received: from rev.193.226.232.28.euroweb.hu ([193.226.232.28]:21476 "EHLO dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261367AbVDMPI4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:08:56 -0400 To: bulb@ucw.cz CC: jamie@shareable.org, 7eggert@gmx.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk In-reply-to: <20050413125609.GA9571@vagabond> (message from Jan Hudec on Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:56:09 +0200) Subject: Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits) References: <3SbPN-3T4-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <20050412144529.GE10995@mail.shareable.org> <20050412160409.GH10995@mail.shareable.org> <20050412164401.GA14149@mail.shareable.org> <20050412171338.GA14633@mail.shareable.org> <20050413125609.GA9571@vagabond> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:08:17 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 796 Lines: 21 > > Aren't there some assumptions in VFS that currently make this > > impossible? > > I believe it's OK with VFS, but applications would be confused to death. > Well, there really is one issue -- dentries have exactly one parent, so > what do you do when opening a file with hardlinks as a directory? (In > fact IIRC that is what lead to all the funny talk about mountpoints, > since they don't have this limitation) OK, that makes sense. It would be quite interesting to see how applications react. Maybe I'll hack something up :) Thanks, Miklos - 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/