At Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:48:53 +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > In glibc, the basic routines for turning file names into ports are > hurd/hurdlookup.c:__hurd_file_name_lookup and friends (which end up > calling __hurd_file_name_lookup). There is a LOOKUP argument (pointer > to function), but I couldn't find where it is used by callers. By > default, __dir_lookup is assumed (in hurd/lookup-retry.c). And > libdiskfs/dir-lookup.c:dir_lookup RPC relies on diskfs_lookup for the > components of the file name. > > I've heard that "" file name has some special use in the Hurd.
Yeah, I think it just reopens the node. > So there > is possibility that changing EINVAL to ENOENT will have unexpected > sequences. Perhaps Roland or Thomas would enlighten us if such change > will break something. It is ultimatively glibc's responsibility to map the internal Hurd interfaces to POSIX interfaces. Of course we also can change the Hurd interfaces, but here I suspect it's more an issue on the glibc's side. Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
