linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/3] vfs: fix sys

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Message-ID: <20080623135549.GW28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:55:49 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] vfs: fix sys_getcwd for detached mounts

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:28:06PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> After the patch it will give a much saner "/skel" result.

I'm not sure that /skel is much saner, to be honest.  Existing
behaviour is BS, no arguments about that, but I suspect that
we want that to be recognizable.  How about doing something
like detached:<rest of path> instead (c.f. "pipe:[6969]" and
its ilk)?

Lack of leading / currently points to pathname *not* resolving
to object; it might be worth doing the same here.  Comments?

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