Re: semantics of TRYEMULROOT

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:19:30AM -0500, matthew sporleder wrote:
 > > [TRYEMULROOT]
 > 
 > Since it's on http://www.netbsd.org/~dholland/buglists/file.html , I'm
 > sure you're aware of it, but would 41678 be solved?
 > 
 > http://gnats.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=41678

Doubtful, as that behavior's inside onionfs. I don't think applying
the same simplification to onionfs would result in the behavior you
want there, either.

(Anyhow, like I wrote in that PR, the only real way forward for
onionfs is to try to figure out a self-consistent model for the
semantics. If as I suspect that turns out to be impossible, the right
way forward is to kill onionfs and replace it with several similar
fses each with a clear set of semantics specialized for a particular
set of purposes.)

-- 
David A. Holland
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