From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Fri Aug 28 17:26:33 2009 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [MiNT] symlinks and hostfs From: Alan Hourihane To: Vincent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rivi=E8re?= Cc: mint@lists.fishpool.fi In-Reply-To: <4A98472E.3010505@freesbee.fr> References: <4A97D65D.6090100@freesbee.fr> <1251471399.19057.103.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <1251472068.19057.104.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <4A97F60C.5040903@freesbee.fr> <1251473424.19057.108.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <4A98472E.3010505@freesbee.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:22:49 +0100 Message-Id: <1251494569.23844.2.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id n7SLQWOO007464 On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 23:07 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote: > Alan Hourihane wrote: > > It doesn't ignore it. The initial call to path2cookie() does the real > > work and operates on the "flag". Then it passes the actual details to > > the filesystem call. So aranym is never asked to do a stat() directly, > > it's just emulating what it thinks it should do. > > Sorry, I didn't understand that stuff around path2cookie(). No problem. > Well, I think every function looking like stat(), lstat(), getxattr(), > and so on should be explicitly documented with the expected behaviour > with symlinks. It seems that, about symlinks, the hostfs interface is > not interpreted in the same way between FreeMiNT and ARAnyM :-( Documentation is always lacking, but it's ARAnyM that gets this wrong, not FreeMiNT. It's just plain silly to be doing what it's doing, just for symlinks. Alan.