Re: [PATCH 08/10] cifs: remove cifs_readlink and CIFSSMBQueryReparseLinkInfo
Steve French <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs |
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote: > CIFSSMBQueryReparseLinkInfo is only called by cifs_readlink, and > cifs_readlink is never called by anything. A quick look at > CIFSSMBQueryReparseLinkInfo shows that it has several problems > with handling of endianness as well. What happens when we read a Junction with current code then? Windows allows users to create a "junction" (see the Windows utilities "linkd.exe", "ln.exe" and "fsutil"). Junctions look a little like a symlink. Although usually they have absolute paths, I think that they can be created with relative paths like a symlink. We probably ought to make sure we can handle this before we remove this. -- Thanks, Steve