[Patch]: mkdir -p and network drives

Pierre A. Humblet pierre@phumblet.no-ip.org
Wed May 11 01:33:00 GMT 2005


At 01:27 AM 5/11/2005 +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>> At 11:11 AM 5/10/2005 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> So I restrained mkdir to only act on FH_FS.
>> 
>> Ideally mkdir & rmdir should be part of the various handlers, but
>> there is no current payoff in doing so as directories can only be
>> created/deleted on FH_FS 
>
>Would it ever be possible (or desirable) to let /proc/registry be writable
as a means of creating registry keys (mkdir) and values (creat)?  

Yes IMO, and that day we will need to distribute {mk, rm}dir to the handlers.
There doesn't seem to be much demand for that however, people seem happy with
regtool.

Pierre



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