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Author	amcnabb
Recipients	amcnabb, hynek, loewis, neologix, r.david.murray
Date	2012-05-21.15:35:12
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Message-id	<1337614513.1.0.694594027806.issue14702@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Which one-line fix do you propose? Doing a stat("/net/prodigy/tmp") before mkdir("/net/prodigy/tmp") is an extremely simple workaround. Of course, I would love to see clear documentation of how the kernel is defined to behave in this situation. It would certainly be intuitive for mkdir("/net/prodigy/tmp") to force a mount of "/net/prodigy", but defined behavior isn't always intuitive. :)

> Which one-line fix do you propose?

Doing a stat("/net/prodigy/tmp") before mkdir("/net/prodigy/tmp") is an extremely simple workaround.

Of course, I would love to see clear documentation of how the kernel is defined to behave in this situation. It would certainly be intuitive for mkdir("/net/prodigy/tmp") to force a mount of "/net/prodigy", but defined behavior isn't always intuitive. :)

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2012-05-21 15:35:13	amcnabb	set	recipients: + amcnabb, loewis, r.david.murray, neologix, hynek
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