Re: [RFC] atomic create+open

From: Daniel Jacobowitz
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 13:48:51 EST


On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:00:06PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > Secondly, Linux doesn't actually allow bind mounts on top of regular
> > > files.
> >
> > It does. Try it.
>
> The feature is even useful from time to time.

But very limited... the last time I needed something like this, bind
mounts on files were so awkward that I ended up solving the problem in
FUSE instead. Explanation at:

http://return.false.org/~drow/fuse/

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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