linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

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Message-Id: <200702141139.41465.agruen@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:39:40 -0800
From:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tony Jones <tonyj@...e.de>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	walt <wa1ter@...ealbox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

On Wednesday 14 February 2007 07:37, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We could prepend another '/' (so that you'd have a path that starts with
> "//"). That's still a legal path, but it's also somethign that even POSIX
> says is valid to mean something else (eg "//ftp/.." or "//socket/.." to
> escape into another namespace).

This sounds good enough to me. My main point is that users that care should be 
able to tell the difference.

Thanks,
Andreas
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