Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits) | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:08:17 +0200 |
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> > Aren't there some assumptions in VFS that currently make this > > impossible? > > I believe it's OK with VFS, but applications would be confused to death. > Well, there really is one issue -- dentries have exactly one parent, so > what do you do when opening a file with hardlinks as a directory? (In > fact IIRC that is what lead to all the funny talk about mountpoints, > since they don't have this limitation)
OK, that makes sense.
It would be quite interesting to see how applications react. Maybe I'll hack something up :)
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