From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Vier Subject: starting with ".." could break stuff Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:56:17 -0500 Message-ID: <20040402035617.GC2158@zero> References: <200404010546.i315kEvY019805@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> Reply-To: Tom Vier Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200404010546.i315kEvY019805@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com i bet there's a few apps that, when trying to skip .., only check the first two chars of the name. this may or may not be a problem. i'm not clear about how the metadata and plugins work. if you write to ..meta/blah there has to be a plugin registered for that meta filename, right? does it keep the data in there ("..meta/blah") in some portian of the normal, linear file? or is ..meta/ the only way to get at it? err - are we talking about files as dirs? i'm confused. 8) i need some sleep. -- Tom Vier DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE