Re: semantics of TRYEMULROOT

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

On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:19:51PM +0000, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
 > TRYEMULROOT should only open existing objects on the emul path, it should 
 > never create anything new, so you would never want to use it for mkdir.  
 > I don't know if that means you need to pass an extra flag to 
 > namei_parent() or what.

That's what I thought at one point, but it's set on almost everything,
including mount, open with or without O_CREAT, mknod, mkfifo, link,
symlink, mkdir, and rename, and also unlink and rmdir.

If that's not how it should be, things should be tidied up. (And, if
neither mkdir-type nor rmdir-type operations should have TRYEMULROOT,
my original question becomes largely or entirely moot.)

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David A. Holland
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