Re: Loopback (dir->dir) mounting (NOT -o loop)

From: Olivier Galibert (galibert@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jun 04 2000 - 19:06:42 EST


On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:22:01AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Umm... You know, I'ld rather have a way to determine whether <foo> is a
> mountpoint. That would be useful for things a-la tar(1), find(1), etc. -
> ->st_dev comparison is a kludge, after all the question is about one
> point in namespace, not two. OTOH bits in ->st_mode are scarce...

The stat structure already has to change because of st_dev and
st_nlink anyway, at least for 2.5. Why not adding a st_flags in the
process?

  OG.

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