Re: bug: mount on an open directory succeeds

From: Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.epfl.ch)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 06:48:57 EST

Alexander Viro wrote:
> The whole situation is outside (both cases) because you can't
> get the object in question without mount()...

So you think that we don't need to be concerned with POSIX at all, because
there's a mount() involved somewhere anyhow ?

I don't think you'll find broad consensus on this view ;-)

Note that my 2nd example does not contain any mount between the stat
calls.

- Werner 

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