Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:27:16PM +0930, David Newall wrote: > >Learn to read. Linux has never allowed that. Most of the Unix systems > >do not allow that. > > I did read the claim and it is ambiguous, in that it can reasonably be > read to mean that most UNIX systems never allowed such links

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

Al Viro wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 06:07:45AM +0930, David Newall wrote: considerations of this whole scheme. Linux, like most Unix systems, has never allowed hard links to directories for a number of reasons; The claim is wrong. UNIX systems have traditionally allowed the superu

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 06:07:45AM +0930, David Newall wrote: > >considerations of this whole scheme. Linux, like most Unix systems, > >has never allowed hard links to directories for a number of reasons; > > The claim is wrong. UNIX systems have traditionally allowed the > superuser to create

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

Jaroslav Sykora wrote: If anybody can think of any other solution of the "redirector problem", possibly even non-kernel based one, let me know and I'd be glad :-) If I understand your problem, you wish to treat an archive file as if it was a directory. Thus, in the ideal situation, you could

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

On Oct 18 2007 22:10, Jaroslav Sykora wrote: > >A minor implementation problem with chrooted environment is that the >FUSE VFS server must be run with root privileges to allow setuid >programs on the mounted filesystems. But it's certainly doable. You would not want user-supplied filesystems to c

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

On Thursday 18 of October 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> > > >> >The '^' is an escape character and it tells the computer to treat the > >> >file as a directory. > >> > >> But what you could do is: write a FUSE fs that mirrors the lower content > >> (lofs/fuseloop/however it was named) and expa

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

On Oct 19 2007 05:32, David Newall wrote: > > The claim is wrong. UNIX systems have traditionally allowed the > superuser to create hard links to directories. See link(2) for > 2.10BSD > . > Having got that wrong throws do

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

On Oct 18 2007 19:07, Jaroslav Sykora wrote: >> On Oct 18 2007 17:21, Jaroslav Sykora wrote: >> >Hello, >> > >> >Let's say we have an archive file "hello.zip" with a hello world program >> >source >> >code. We want to do this: >> >cat hello.zip^/hello.c >> >gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

On Thursday 18 of October 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Oct 18 2007 17:21, Jaroslav Sykora wrote: > >Hello, > > > >Let's say we have an archive file "hello.zip" with a hello world program > >source > >code. We want to do this: > > cat hello.zip^/hello.c > > gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

David Newall wrote: David Newall wrote: Jaroslav Sykora wrote: Let's say we have an archive file "hello.zip" with a hello world program source code. We want to do this: cat hello.zip^/hello.c gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello etc.. Wouldn't you do this as a user space filesystem

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

David Newall wrote: Jaroslav Sykora wrote: Let's say we have an archive file "hello.zip" with a hello world program source code. We want to do this: cat hello.zip^/hello.c gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello etc.. Wouldn't you do this as a user space filesystem? Which is what you

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

Jaroslav Sykora wrote: Let's say we have an archive file "hello.zip" with a hello world program source code. We want to do this: cat hello.zip^/hello.c gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello etc.. Wouldn't you do this as a user space filesystem? - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

On Oct 18 2007 17:21, Jaroslav Sykora wrote: >Hello, > >Let's say we have an archive file "hello.zip" with a hello world program source >code. We want to do this: > cat hello.zip^/hello.c > gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello > etc.. > >The '^' is an escape character and it tells the

[RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

Hello, Let's say we have an archive file "hello.zip" with a hello world program source code. We want to do this: cat hello.zip^/hello.c gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello etc.. The '^' is an escape character and it tells the computer to treat the file as a directory. [Note: