Re: fakeroot problem

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> To make cases like the current state less confusing, perhaps netfs (and
> diskfs) should do something special for an EOPNOTSUPP return from
> *_get_translator in lookup/getroot.  It will only come up there if
> S_IPTRANS is set, which the *_validate_stat hook should only set if
> *_get_translator is going to work right.  So it's an internal bogosity for
> it then to return EOPNOTSUPP.  It could translate that to EIO or
> EGRATUITOUS or something, or just use an assert.

I think this is in the category of the underlying "user" of the
library doing something not allowed.  Such programming errors should
get an assert, I suppose.

Thomas