On 8/11/05, sergey ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have not succeeded with integrating reiser4 & pam_mktemp.
> From one side I recompiled kernel with reiser4 patches modified to
> return ENOTTY for attempt to deal with attributes, as tmpfs does.
> Pam_mktemp does not work after this. So I returned to the kernel with
> original Namesys' patches.
> # strace -o su.log -fF su - seriv
> 1993 mkdir("/tmp/.private", 0711) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> 1993 lstat64("/tmp/.private", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0711, st_size=7, ...}) = 0
> 1993 open("/tmp/.private", O_RDONLY) = 3
> 1993 ioctl(3, EXT2_IOC_GETFLAGS, 0xbf9e37f8) = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory)
> So it looks like reiser4 tries to be good and answer to ioctl
> getting/setting attributes "EEXIST" and "EISDIR",
> and not return error "ENOTTY".
This seems kind of confusing -- the problem with the idea that all
files are files and directories... do we really want to be returning
that it's a directory here? My guess is that this is the confusing
bit about this filesystem. AFAIK, this is probably confusing the PAM
code or whatever. *shrugs*
--
~Mike
- Just my two cents
- No man is an island, and no man is unable.
