DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2003-09
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Re: cache_lookup() work this week.
At 10:10 PM -0700 9/2/03, Matthew Dillon wrote:
The fourth step will be a *BIG* Carrot...
This means that (A) it will be possible to hardlink
directories,
Isn't this dangerous? What if you have a hardlink between
/a/b/c/d and /a/b? Something like 'find' will descend down
into /a/b/c/d and only find itself back at /a/b (but with a
longer pathname...). There won't be a good way for 'find'
to avoid that kind of loop, if I understand this correctly.
and (B) it will be possible to implement semi-hard links,
basically softlinks that *look* like hardlinks
What will this be like? Ie, what will be the difference
between hard-links and semi-hard links? Will this be
something like the way OpenAFS handles volume-mounting?
and (C) to be able to CD forwards and backwards without
the system getting confused about paths.
This would be nice!
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