On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:51:13 -0400, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 23:19 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > Use lstat instead of stat > > This patch should probably come after 9p2000.u support is added, since > now we transparently work 'through' symlinks (because legacy 9p2000 > doesn't support them). > Once 9p2000.u support is added we could represent symlinks and then a > switch to lstat might be due. > Shouldn't we aim to support 9p2000.L directly rather than supporting all the three versions of protocol ? Linux guest have good support for 9p2000.L Do you think the patch breaks any of the expectation of 9p2000 ?. It would be nice to get the correct file attributes when fetching attributes from the server, irrespective of whether client support symlink or not. -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
