From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Aug 17 15:46:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B11F14CC7; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id PAA13293; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA13692; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:38:34 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id QAA27793; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:44:30 -0600 Message-ID: <37B9E5CE.8E7B8AFD@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:44:30 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Don Lewis Cc: Terry Lambert , wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov, Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite References: <199908172148.OAA02073@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Don Lewis wrote: > > On Aug 16, 9:18pm, Terry Lambert wrote: > } Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite > > } > I don't see how the namei recursion method prevents catching // as a > } > namespace escape. > } > } > } //apple-resource-fork/intermediate_dir/some_other_dir/file_with_fork > } > } You can't inherit the fact that you are looking at the resource fork > } in the terminal component, ONLY. > > I don't think this is a good example. How would you access the resource > fork of a file relative to the current directory? IMHO, the necessary > goop needs to go at the end of the path name. Pick a separator character that nobody in their right mind would use in a file path. "\" strikes me as a good candidate. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message