Re: varlinks!

Benny Amorsen (amorsen@sscnet.com)
30 Apr 1998 12:24:26 +0200


>>>>> "CSA" == C Scott Ananian <cananian@lcs.mit.edu> writes:

CSA> Look at the function do_follow_link(). If
CSA> inode->i_op->follow_link() returns an error result code, then
CSA> call inode->i_op->readlink() with the same arguments and check
CSA> for "${" (or whatever your magic string is). Perform your
CSA> substitutions and re-resolve at that point.

Why not just do all this in the libc instead? It seems to be
troublesome to do it in the kernel.

Benny

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