Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories...

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jul 22, 2007, 01:05 UTC
Message-ID: <85r6n1p7sb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707211737090.3607@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
>> 
>> I must be really bad at explaining things, or I am losing a fight
>> against preconceptions fixed beyond my imagination.
>
> I really dont' see the point. But hey, code talks.

Yes, I am working on that. It would have been nice if IS_DIR was not already taken by trees, but one can't have everything. So I need to decide how to represent the node, and it would appear that I need to angle for "file" after all. Since it is really quite closer to a file or symlink than to a tree or project. Hm, perhaps a symlink might be more expedient. Make it have an empty reference, and it is unique. And there will be fewer places in the code manipulating symlinks than files.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum