On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:21:35PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Ugh, netfs_attempt_lookup did not fail, but netfs_S_dir_lookup does! This > > is because it sees that S_ISCHR evaluates to true on the node. Because > > fakeroot has no translator started on the node yet, fshelp_fetch_root will > > try to do so. > > I see. This is just a case of not matching the assumptions that netfs was > originally written for. netfs_S_dir_lookup is much too complicated a > function to want to override with a duplicate version having a slight > difference. I think we should just add a hook to netfs to disable its > special handling of special files.
I tried the cruel way and just #if 0'ed out the whoel S_ISCHR... block (but not the symlink handling), and it worked fine. Which form should the hook take? A function that netfs_S_dir_lookup calls and that we override? Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
