Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

From: Andreas Gruenbacher
Date: Wed Feb 14 2007 - 14:40:04 EST


On Wednesday 14 February 2007 07:37, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We could prepend another '/' (so that you'd have a path that starts with
> "//"). That's still a legal path, but it's also somethign that even POSIX
> says is valid to mean something else (eg "//ftp/.." or "//socket/.." to
> escape into another namespace).

This sounds good enough to me. My main point is that users that care should be
able to tell the difference.

Thanks,
Andreas
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