On Sat, 19 May 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote:
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> 1. Generic lookup method and argument parsiing (fs/lookupargs.c)
Looks sane.
> 2. Restricted block device (drivers/block/blkrestrict.c)
This is not very user-friendly, but along with symlinks this makes perfect
sense. It would make partition handlin
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Ben's /dev/md0/ is ugly - it's open just for side effects,
> with no IO supposed to happen.
Now that I'm awake and refreshed, yeah, that's awful. But
echo "hot-add,slot=5,device=/dev/sda" >/dev/md0/control *is* sane. Heck,
the system can even send b
Alexander Viro wrote:
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> It's way past ugly.
I knew you'd like it.
It kind of makes sense, because it puts the two primary stream-of-bytes
objects in Unix into the same namespace, with the same accessors.
So if some random application is expecting a filename well heck, you
just give it a path
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> So. When am I going to be able to:
>
> open("/bin/ls,-l,/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY);
You are not. Think for a minute and you'll see why.
Linus' idea of /dev/tty/ is marginally sane - it makes sense
to consider that as configuring-upon-open. You
