parsepath op

2011-01-02 Thread David Holland
at once. After thinking about this for a while I think the best approach is to add a parsepath op, which given a pathname returns the length of the string to consume. There are two major questions about how this should work: one is whether it should be a vnode or fs operation, and the other is how

Re: parsepath op

2011-01-02 Thread David Laight
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:17:11AM +, David Holland wrote: Because we have at least one FS that may not want paths being looked up to be split on '/', namely rump etfs, and arguably the most important simplification to VOP_LOOKUP is to make it handle one path component at a time, we need a

Re: parsepath op

2011-01-02 Thread David Holland
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 10:48:03AM +, David Laight wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:17:11AM +, David Holland wrote: Because we have at least one FS that may not want paths being looked up to be split on '/', namely rump etfs, and arguably the most important simplification to