Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed May 23 2007 - 09:54:43 EST


On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 03:23:54PM +0200, Ph. Marek wrote:
> How about some special node in eg. /proc (or a new filesystem)?
> Eg.
> /fileAsDir/etc/passwd/owner ...
> would work for all *files*. For directories we do not know whether we're still
> climbing the hierarchy or would like to see meta-data.

So we need to make *anything* done anywhere in the namespace to modify
the dentry tree on that fs. Could you spell "fuck, NO"?
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