linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

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Date:	Wed, 23 May 2007 08:39:24 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	spotter@...columbia.edu
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, viro@....linux.org.uk,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

> > Others might suggest accessing streams, resource forks or extended
> > attributes through such an interface.  However this patch only deals
> > with the non-directory case, so directories would be excluded from
> > that interface.
> 
> here's a possibly stupid question.  What about symlinks to dirs?  namely 
> the shells tend to treat them differently if postfixed with a slash or not.

Right.  So it only works on non-directory, non-symlink objects.

Miklos
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