Re: first patch question

2018-08-09 Thread Nicholas Mc Guire
On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 01:19:53PM -0400, greg gallagher wrote: > > > On 2018-08-07 12:47 AM, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:15:04AM -0400, Greg Gallagher wrote: > >>Hi, > >>I creating my first patch to the kernel. I followed the > >>instruction on the newbies wiki an

Proxy filesystems

2018-08-09 Thread Demi Obenour
How difficult would it be to create a proxy filesystem — that is, a filesystem that is a view of the filesystem? For instance, opening `/dev/urlfs/home/test/A%20Bcd` would open `/home/test/A Bcd`. The purpose would be to handle poorly written tools (like Autoconf and CMake) that do not handle wie

Re: first patch question

2018-08-09 Thread greg gallagher
On 2018-08-07 12:47 AM, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 12:15:04AM -0400, Greg Gallagher wrote: Hi, I creating my first patch to the kernel. I followed the instruction on the newbies wiki and everything went smoothly. I got feedback from the maintainer to fix all the ali