Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

From: Christophe Saout
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 14:34:36 EST


Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 14:59 -0400 schrieb Rik van Riel:

> open("/tmp/bash", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0100755) = 4
>
> What do we do with O_CREAT ?
>
> Do we always allow both a directory and a file to be created with
> the same name ?

I would say that the directory under a file is implicit. There are still
the pseudo-files a filesystem might want to provide or the VFS if there
should be an agreement to generally provide file/pseudo/uid or possibly
some security hooks. Some filesystem might want to provide those pseudo
files but doesn't have the technical possibility to store non-pseudeo
files from the user under such a directory.

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