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

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Message-ID: <4de7f8a60705230216n4425e19bqddd8b54b6a0ff74a@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 May 2007 11:16:13 +0200
From:	"Jan Blunck" <jblunck@...e.de>
To:	"Miklos Szeredi" <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	viro@....linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

On 5/23/07, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
>
> So your question is, which mount takes priority on the lookup?  It
> probably should be the propagated real mount, rather than the
> dir-on-file one, shouldn't it?
>

Maybe this might belong into __link_path_walk() similar to the
handling of symbolic links. If the real mount has always higher
priority why do we bother in follow_mount() about it.

Jan
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