Accessing native NT namespace as filesystem

Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com
Thu Sep 2 16:30:00 GMT 2010


On 09/02/2010 10:19 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> So, what do you think?  Useful/Useless/Tasteless/Ridiculous?

Cool!  And probably useful.

> Would /sys be ok?  Or what else?  Not /dev, certainly, since that's
> reserved for Cygwin/POSIX devices.  /devices, maybe, as on Solaris?

/proc/sys, to match /proc/registry?  Otherwise, I like /devices more 
than /sys, since /sys on Linux tends to be more introspective of kernel 
options than exposing an alternate namespace for file systesm.

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