On 01/19/12 08:30, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On the app side, I will tell you what you're likely to get back from the > crowd on LKML: write a proper BSD/MIT/LGPL library
This argument would have stronger force if there were real code in a real application, code that solved the overall problem -- code that we could read and run. I don't know of any such code. > the kernel is not in any better position to remove shadowed paths > than userspace, both are perfectly capable of doing it. This seems to contradict an earlier comment made by someone else, "So at the moment is a bit of a guess which entries are real and which are obscured." <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10363#53> I don't know who's right, nor do I understand what all the underlying issues are. I expect most other app developers are in a similar boat. It's not a good situation to be in.