From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, miklos@szeredi.hu
Subject: Re: [RFC] readlink()-related oddities
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:26:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25928.1448036810@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151120160842.GL22011@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> All of them? I see two kinds there - one is magical symlink (recognized
> by contents in afs_iget()), another is this autocell thing, the latter
> having no ->readlink(). Both serve as automount points, don't they?
The "autocell" thing is where you don't have an AFS file of that name and
lookup of that non-existent file as an attempt to mount a destination volume
encoded by the filename.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-20 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-19 23:26 [RFC] readlink()-related oddities Al Viro
2015-11-20 2:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-20 2:57 ` Al Viro
2015-11-20 3:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-20 3:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-20 3:24 ` Al Viro
2015-11-20 10:00 ` David Howells
2015-11-20 9:59 ` David Howells
2015-11-20 16:08 ` Al Viro
2015-11-20 16:26 ` David Howells [this message]
2015-11-20 22:33 ` Al Viro
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