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Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
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Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs |
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27 Oct 2001 17:59:53 -0700 |
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Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> writes:
> Note, however, that this optimization in find will quite totally break the
> filesystem semantics presented by translators set on regular files. That
> is, a translator set on a regular file may well report S_IFDIR and so a
> find ought to treat it as a directory. But the underlying node isn't a
> directory and so doesn't have a .. node contributing to the containing
> directory's link count.
This is a realy problem with find, and we should report it.
(Actually, we should try and provide a patch.)
It opens a question: do we want the decision to hinge on whether
S_IFDIR is returned? The other thing is to test on whether it really
is a subdir. (Note that my earlier note about st_nlink is about
subdirs, S_IFDIR.)
A real subdir, of course, is one that supports directory operations.
Perhaps find should support both versions, and should have a user
option to say which. (That is, it being find, it should have
predicates to detect which, and then a sane default.) It begs the
question of "what is the default", but whatever it is, it should be
the same as is used by things like chmod -R and so forth.
I'm inclined to say the default should be to work on all real subdirs,
whether they label themselves with S_IFDIR or not.
Thomas
- Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs, (continued)
- Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs, Moritz Schulte, 2001/10/27
- Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/10/27
- Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs, Moritz Schulte, 2001/10/27
- Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/10/27
- Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs, Moritz Schulte, 2001/10/27
- Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/10/27
- Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs, Moritz Schulte, 2001/10/28
- Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs, Neal H Walfield, 2001/10/28
- Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/10/28
- Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/10/28
- Re: st_nlink of directory nodes in shadowfs,
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