Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756150AbYFWN4A (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:56:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752813AbYFWNzv (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:55:51 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:51731 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751759AbYFWNzv (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:55:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:55:49 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] vfs: fix sys_getcwd for detached mounts Message-ID: <20080623135549.GW28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20080616112804.930095761@szeredi.hu> <20080616112828.731144133@szeredi.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080616112828.731144133@szeredi.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 752 Lines: 18 On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:28:06PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > After the patch it will give a much saner "/skel" result. I'm not sure that /skel is much saner, to be honest. Existing behaviour is BS, no arguments about that, but I suspect that we want that to be recognizable. How about doing something like detached: instead (c.f. "pipe:[6969]" and its ilk)? Lack of leading / currently points to pathname *not* resolving to object; it might be worth doing the same here. Comments? -- 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/