Re: [PATCH 0/3] vfs: plug some holes involving LAST_BIND symlinks and file bind mounts (try #5)

From: Duane Griffin
Date: Tue Nov 24 2009 - 08:14:06 EST


2009/11/24 Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>:
> On Tue 2009-11-24 12:53:09, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> I still believe leaving the current semantics and documenting them is
>> the best option.
>
> I believe that current semantics is ugly enough that 'documenting' it
> is not enough... and people want to port from other systems, too, not
> expecting nasty surprises like this...

Solaris 10 works the same way as Linux does now, so I don't think the
porting argument gets you anywhere.

> Pavel

Cheers,
Duane.

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