Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

[Jan Engelhardt]

Hi,

On Feb 14 2007 14:57, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
>[2]
>    ------------------------
>pipe:			"pipe:[439336]" (or "pipe/[439336]")
>
>[3] Always make disconnected paths double-slashed:
>--------------------------------------------------
>pipe:			"//pipe/[439336]"
>lazily umounted dir:	"//dir/file"
>lazily unmounted fs:	"//file"
>unreachable root:	"//"
>
>Opinions?

As for [2]/[3]:

What's the point in changing pipefs... you can *never*
reach it *anyway*, even if it was a /-style path, since
pipefs is a NOMNT filesystem.

That said, programs like lsof might break when it changes
away from "pipe:[integer]" (same goes for socket:, etc.)


Jan
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