H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Erm? Do you have to mount non-directories, in the first place?
> > Transformations of files to directories may be _very_ confusing for
> > userland - that just does not happen.
>
> You don't *have* to, but it is sometimes nice *to be able to*. You can
> change files to directories with rename(), unless you're talking about
> changing already open file descriptors.
Yes it is potentially nice for cd-into-tar file tricks too. Perhaps
confusing for userspace, but I see no fundamental reason to disallow it.
On this theme, does mount --bind --replace now provide a mechanism for
atomic replacement of non-empty directories then?
-- Jamie
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