This patch is very buggy. When I applied it, a saw the following:
yuri:~# smbmount //pts/tmp x -n
yuri:~# ls -Ula x
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Feb 16 13:42 1/
yuri:~# ls -Ula x/1
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Feb 16 13:42 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Feb 16 13:41 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Feb 16 13:42 2*
yuri:~# ls -Ula x
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Feb 16 13:41 ./
drwxr-x--x 10 root root 4096 Feb 16 12:45 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Feb 16 13:42 2*
yuri:~#
There are some other strange features of its behavior, which can not be
reproduced.
I think, such patches must be completly tested before publishing.
Yuri Per (yuri@pts.mipt.ru)