Re: Loopback (dir->dir) mounting (NOT -o loop)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
By author:    Olivier Galibert <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:22:01AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Umm... You know, I'ld rather have a way to determine whether <foo> is a
> > mountpoint. That would be useful for things a-la tar(1), find(1), etc. -
> > ->st_dev comparison is a kludge, after all the question is about one
> > point in namespace, not two. OTOH bits in ->st_mode are scarce...
> 
> The stat structure already has to change because of st_dev and
> st_nlink anyway, at least for 2.5.  Why not adding a st_flags in the
> process?
> 

THat would need to change every user-space program in the universe
which currently cares about this, though.

	-hpa
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