Subject: Re: tmpfs added
To: Geoff Wing <gcw@pobox.com>
From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/13/2005 13:58:36
On 9/13/05, Geoff Wing <gcw@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 2005-09-13 11:48 +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal output:
> :On 9/13/05, Geoff Wing <mason@primenet.com.au> wrote:
> :> Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com> typed:
> :> : I'm pleased to announce that tmpfs, an (efficient) memory file-syste=
m,
> :> : has been added to NetBSD's main source tree.
> :> tmpfs_vnops.c: readdir should return ``.'' and ``..'' as well, yes?
> :Yes, it has to and it does. (See tmpfs_dir_getdotdent and
> :tmpfs_dir_getdotdotdent, both called from tmpfs_readdir.)
>=20
> Well, I must have stuffed up.
>=20
> # mount_tmpfs tmpfs /mnt
> # cd /mnt
> # /bin/ls -al
> #
So a bug, but not made on purpose :-/ Will look at it later.
Thanks for finding this.
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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
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