Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Union Mount: Directory listing in glibc

From: hooanon05
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 11:36:44 EST



Hello Nagabhushan,

bsn.0007@xxxxxxxxx:
> I went through Bharata's RFC post on glibc based Union Mount readdir solution
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/11/34) and have come up with patches
> against glibc to implement the same.
:::

While I don't have objection against the implementation in userspace,
what will UnionMount handle about rmdir or rename dir?
Those systemcalls need to test whether the dir is *logically* empty or
not in kernel space, don't they?
And I am afraid that UnionMount has to implement the similar thing, but
it never mean to modify glibc is a bad idea.


Junjiro Okajima
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