Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932890AbZKXNN4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:13:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932882AbZKXNNy (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:13:54 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.220.213]:54206 "EHLO mail-fx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932671AbZKXNNx (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:13:53 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=qQMk5XqcbhJc0Pp64nJ9/atUe0i/hvDgsThUBv4qyQvyZ8tCbJ23jUC0vDGMFj2yN7 Lk40TgxQEy3Eldun1RhFqbZoOAeZGpap+CgRD4l+RxWtjKS1Rt1tyeCW7C/gs1NZ0sgG dAg3HM+psYD025S1Vr1+ql25KkQJJFV6lcCB0= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20091124120906.GA1700@ucw.cz> References: <1258998084-26797-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> <20091123173616.75c3f600@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20091123224948.GB5598@shareable.org> <20091123181545.05ad004d@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20091123193426.55f1530a@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20091124012027.GA14645@shareable.org> <20091124062621.744beddb@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20091124120906.GA1700@ucw.cz> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:13:58 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: f9798914fb23a648 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] vfs: plug some holes involving LAST_BIND symlinks and file bind mounts (try #5) From: Duane Griffin To: Pavel Machek Cc: Miklos Szeredi , Jeff Layton , jamie@shareable.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 888 Lines: 24 2009/11/24 Pavel Machek : > On Tue 2009-11-24 12:53:09, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> I still believe leaving the current semantics and documenting them is >> the best option. > > I believe that current semantics is ugly enough that 'documenting' it > is not enough... and people want to port from other systems, too, not > expecting nasty surprises like this... Solaris 10 works the same way as Linux does now, so I don't think the porting argument gets you anywhere. > Pavel Cheers, Duane. -- "I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine" - Bob Dylan -- 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/