On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:27:20 PDT, Hans Reiser said: > [email protected] wrote: > >On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:02:27 PDT, Hans Reiser said: > >>Create a mountpoint which knows how to resolve a/b without using a > >>"directory". For wanting to resolve it *without* using a "directory"... > >And said mountpoint gets past the '/' interpretation in the VFS, how, exactly? > > > >fs/namei.c, do_path_lookup() does magic on a '/' on about the 3rd line. > >So you're going to get handed 'a'. > It does not need to be so complex actually, Just create a plain old > parent directory just like every other parent directory in procfs. This smells a lot like using a directory to resolve it....
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