On Tuesday 26 May 2009 23:20:01 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@des.no> writes: > > Like bde@ pointed out, the patch is incorrect. It moves the test for > > v_type != VDIR up to a point where, in the case of a symlink, v_type is > > always (by definition) VLNK. > > Hmm, actually, symlinks are resolved in namei(), not lookup(). This is > not going to be pretty. I'll be back later...
I don't pretend to comprehend the kernel side of things fully, but wouldn't it be easier to append a dot to all trailing slashes inside or before passing to namei? This works in userland at present and lighttpd could use something similar as a work around until it's fixed: % echo this is foo > foo % ln -fs foo bar % cat bar/ this is foo % cat bar/. cat: bar/.: Not a directory -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
