On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 03:27:17PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > I'm not sure if it is worth the hassle, I bet some applications depend on that behavior. > But you can give it a try, I'd insert a negative dentry for ".." if ".." is child of the current > root. Leaving aside the fact that .. handling does not depend on the corresponding directory entry, why would such logics belong in the filesystem itself anyway? And not in the caller of ->lookup(), which *does* have all the information needed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html