to hide file

[Dave Ihnat]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 04:23:57PM +0400, A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru wrote:
> The trick with mountpoint works in Linux. But ...  ... when you hide
> files behind a mountpoint, the files become inaccessible for future
> open calls, only files which were open before mount will be accessible
> for processes which opened them.

Which is why the hyperspace ".." directory, in some rarely-traversed
directory, would be set up to point to the I-node of the actual directory
hidden under the mountpoint.
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	Dave Ihnat
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