Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763911AbXEWNym (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 09:54:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756019AbXEWNye (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 09:54:34 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:55031 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755362AbXEWNyd (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 09:54:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:54:32 +0100 From: Al Viro To: "Ph. Marek" Cc: Miklos Szeredi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory Message-ID: <20070523135432.GX4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20070523113925.GT4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> <200705231523.55306.philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200705231523.55306.philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 680 Lines: 14 On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 03:23:54PM +0200, Ph. Marek wrote: > How about some special node in eg. /proc (or a new filesystem)? > Eg. > /fileAsDir/etc/passwd/owner ... > would work for all *files*. For directories we do not know whether we're still > climbing the hierarchy or would like to see meta-data. So we need to make *anything* done anywhere in the namespace to modify the dentry tree on that fs. Could you spell "fuck, NO"? - 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/