Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix handling of device names with /'s in them

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

>On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:02:27 PDT, Hans Reiser said:
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>>Create a mountpoint which knows how to resolve a/b without using a
>>"directory".
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>And said mountpoint gets past the '/' interpretation in the VFS, how, exactly?
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>fs/namei.c, do_path_lookup() does magic on a '/' on about the 3rd line.
>So you're going to get handed 'a'.
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It does not need to be so complex actually,  Just create a plain old
parent directory just like every other parent directory in procfs.
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