From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <240892daccaec2131635fbd4917479de@hamnavoe.com>, <393a7f63e7c4973e661988f1009f5d7a@vitanuova.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] ls, rc question -- proposed change to rc/glob.c Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:09:37 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3c51c360-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 rog@vitanuova.com wrote: > the program shouldn't have to *care* whether it's dealing with a union > directory or not - that should be solely the concern of whoever's > arranging the namespace. Absolutely. However, I don't mind there being some obscure way to examine what is mounted in more detail, so long as it is not the facility usually used by apps. (Consider Unix treatment of symbolic links; you usually want to follow them but not always, thus lstat(2) vs. stat(2).)