Re: RFC: filesystem-specific pathconf replies

2012-10-04 Thread Roland McGrath
I think you need to explain the rationale more thoroughly. If the only pathconf parameters that might vary by filesystem implementation are ones that libdiskfs has (or can easily have) other information about, then I think it's better not to add this new "flexibility". It's just an opportunity fo

RFC: filesystem-specific pathconf replies

2012-10-04 Thread Pino Toscano
Hi, there are filesystem-specific options (e.g. _PC_2_SYMLINKS) which cannot expressed currently with variables of libdiskfs (that is, which libdiskfs does not know). My proposal is to add a new function, optionally overridable by filesystems-specific implementation, to return custom pathconf r

Re: [PATCH] diskfs/pathconf: handle _PC_2_SYMLINKS

2012-10-04 Thread Pino Toscano
Alle lunedì 1 ottobre 2012, Roland McGrath ha scritto: > That doesn't look right to me. diskfs_shortcut_symlink means that > the filesystem implementation has its own way to store symlinks. A > Hurd filesystem supports symlinks either if there is a first-class > storage mechanism like that, or if

Re: [PATCH] gnumach: configure: add --with-version-suffix=STRING

2012-10-04 Thread Pino Toscano
Alle mercoledì 3 ottobre 2012, Thomas Schwinge ha scritto: > Hi! > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:50:38 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > > Alle martedì 2 ottobre 2012, Thomas Schwinge ha scritto: > > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 19:59:35 +0200, Pino Toscano > > > > wrote: > > > > Alle giovedì 27 settembre 2012,