From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Organization: SuSE Labs, Novell
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:39:40 -0800
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On Wednesday 14 February 2007 07:37, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We could prepend another '/' (so that you'd have a path that starts with
> "//"). That's still a legal path, but it's also somethign that even POSIX
> says is valid to mean something else (eg "//ftp/.." or "//socket/.." to
> escape into another namespace).

This sounds good enough to me. My main point is that users that care should be 
able to tell the difference.

Thanks,
Andreas
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