Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > How would those tools know that this particular pathname _is_ a magical > symlink? Sure, if you see a symlink with body that starts with % or #, > you could figure out that it's not a regular one and go parse the body, > but for stat(2) it looks like a directory. Do those tools call readlink() > on every directory they spot on AFS volume? David?
It has to be a directory so that you can mount on it. If you look in /afs on an OpenAFS client filesystem it appears as a symlink to somewhere under /afs/ because they can't do the in-kernel mounting (it's GPL-only on Linux). David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
