Re: [AVFS] ~/.avfs and symlinks

On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:05:04 +0100, Ralf Hoffmann wrote:

snip
> Thanks. I didn't used the fuse code yet so I didn't noticed this but I
> will take a look into this problem ASAP.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Ralf Hoffmann

Well, AFAIK, fuse is the only option with kernel > 2.6. I could not get
coda or preload to work at all with current kernels. Please let me know if
I can help at all. However, in pseudo code this check might work.

read avfs request
parse directory/filename
for each node in directory
   is symlink?
   readlink
   substitute real link for symlink
   prepend to filename
next node

dir1 -> dir-real
ex: ls ~/.avfs/dir1/dir2/dir3/file.tar#

parse_directory = /dir1/dir2/dir3
filename = file.tar#

for dir in parse_directory
   is dir1 symlink?
   yes
   readlink dir1 -> dir-real
   parse_directory -> /dir-real/dir2/dir3
next
   is dir2 symlink?
   no
next
   is dir3 symlink?
   no
end for

parse_directory now = /dir-real/dir2/dir3/

new command is

ls ~/.avfs/parse_directory/filename

Or, perhaps it would work better going from the leaf to the first node?

JM2C

HTH
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