Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751480AbVJYHE4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:04:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751478AbVJYHE4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:04:56 -0400 Received: from 238-193.adsl.pool.ew.hu ([193.226.238.193]:22032 "EHLO dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751476AbVJYHEz (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:04:55 -0400 To: viro@ftp.linux.org.uk CC: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: (message from Miklos Szeredi on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:56:46 +0200) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] FUSE improvements + VFS changes References: <20051025042728.GK7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:04:21 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 940 Lines: 28 > > > The limitations are: > > > > > > 1) open("foo", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0444) or similar won't work > > > > > > 2) ftruncate on a file not having write permission (but file opened > > > in write mode) will fail > > > > > > 3) statfs() cannot return different values based on the path within > > > a filesystem > > > > 4) mass of a body cannot vary depending on the way it's turned. > > > > Horrible limitations, all of them... > > Troll. > > We have solution for 1-3, what's your's for 4? And in case you're wondering, 1-2 are mandated by SUS, and obscure programs like "cp" depend on 1) for example. So it's not as if these limitations were all that fair. 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/