Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] readlink()-related oddities | Date | Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:26:50 +0000 |
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Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> All of them? I see two kinds there - one is magical symlink (recognized > by contents in afs_iget()), another is this autocell thing, the latter > having no ->readlink(). Both serve as automount points, don't they?
The "autocell" thing is where you don't have an AFS file of that name and lookup of that non-existent file as an attempt to mount a destination volume encoded by the filename.
David
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