On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Machida, Hiroyuki wrote: > Bodo Eggert wrote: > Please confirm my understanding. > You sugessted that symlink should not have ATTR_SYS, to prevent > some over 4KB files created in DOS/WIN to be treated as symlinks?
NACK, files longer than 4KB should not be symlinks, and maybe (if you're paranoid enough) files without a magic header should not be symlinks, too. BTW: What about storing short symlinks (strlen(name)+strlen(symlink) < 200) in the filename as $name.modified_base64($symlink) and storing the split position in ctime? This would reduce the need for data blocks, which may be valuable on small devices. -- Keep your hands off strong drink. It can make you shoot at the tax collector and miss. -- R.A. Heinlein - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/