Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

From: viro
Date: Sat Aug 28 2004 - 13:57:14 EST


On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 11:44:52AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Going back to O_XATTR: that would end up doing the "special vfsmount"
> magic at the beginning of the lookup. If the dentry you started with
> wasn't marked D_HYBRID, it would just return -ENOTDIR.

OK, let me restate the question - what do we get from pwd if we do
fchdir() to such beast?
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