[Patch]: mkdir -p and network drives

[Pierre A. Humblet]

cgf wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:57:08PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

>>The code should handle "//" correctly, but path.cc still transforms it
>>into "/", because of the bash bug.

> Is that fixed in the current bash?

AFAIK Corinna fixed it once, but the patch got lost and it's currently
not fixed.

> So, I'd appreciate it if you would just move your fhandler_netdrive
> stuff to fhandler_netdrive.cc.

Sure. Thanks for setting up the framework.

> I didn't renumber FH_FS with above change.  I wasn't sure why you did
> that.  I don't think that there was a requirement that it has to be the
> lowest numbered minor device number.  If there is a requirement like
> that we should change it.

OK. No requirement, just aesthetic. There seemed to be a pattern.

>>About implementing readdir: PTC...

> I was thinking about doing this but how would it ever be invoked?

With "ls -l //"  or "ls -l //machine"

> You can't do an opendir on "//", right?

Sure you can (thanks to existing code in the virtual driver). Just remove
the
code in path.cc that changes "//" into "/". It's only/mainly there because
of bash.

Pierre