Re: misuse of pathnames in rump (and portalfs?)

To: der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>
Subject: Re: misuse of pathnames in rump (and portalfs?)
From: David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:52:16 +0000

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 08:26:42AM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
 > > (2) does anyone think that a correct namei design should provide a
 > > correct canonicalized full pathname for its inspection during lookup?
 > 
 > Not me.
 > 
 > > (Note that this is free -- it would require splicing a getcwd into
 > > every namei call.)
 > 
 > _Not_ free, I assume you mean?

er right, silly editor... :-/

Anyway, it looks as if it's not needed.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost

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