[systemd-devel] how to handle filesystems that do not support d_type in readdirs dirent?

Marius Tolzmann tolzmann at molgen.mpg.de
Thu Mar 3 07:49:00 PST 2011


hi

On 03/03/11 16:30, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Thu, 03.03.11 13:05, Marius Tolzmann (tolzmann at molgen.mpg.de) wrote:
>
>>
>> hello..
>>
>> we are currently using reiserfs on our root-partition..
>
> Urks, people still use that cruft?

at least we do..

>> .. how is this supposed to be handled? if the type of a symlinks
>> destination isn't checked the whole check could be skipped at all?
>
> The check is a good if we can do it cheaply, but if we cannot it should
> be acceptable in all these case if we don't do it.
>
> Please check current git (in particular 1a6f4df) if it covers all issues
> you raised.

i will check this ASAP...

thx for your support..


marius..

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