Re: [PATCH 0/8] FUSE improvements + VFS changes

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Tue Oct 25 2005 - 02:05:06 EST


> > > The limitations are:
> > >
> > > 1) open("foo", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0444) or similar won't work
> > >
> > > 2) ftruncate on a file not having write permission (but file opened
> > > in write mode) will fail
> > >
> > > 3) statfs() cannot return different values based on the path within
> > > a filesystem
> >
> > 4) mass of a body cannot vary depending on the way it's turned.
> >
> > Horrible limitations, all of them...
>
> Troll.
>
> We have solution for 1-3, what's your's for 4?

And in case you're wondering, 1-2 are mandated by SUS, and obscure
programs like "cp" depend on 1) for example. So it's not as if these
limitations were all that fair.

Miklos
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