Re: [PATCH] file-has-acl: revert unintended change in behavior of ls -L

[Kamil Dudka]

On Monday 03 October 2011 22:47:38 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Kamil Dudka <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Monday 03 October 2011 20:46:59 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> >> Yes it is possible to mount file and it is call a bind mount. See man
> >> page of mount, and it is used in pratice essentially for /dev/null but
> >> it could be used for any regular file
> >
> > Thanks for the hint.  I did not know this.  Luckily, unless such mounts
> > can be trigerred automatically by a getxattr() syscall in a real-world
> > scenario, they should cause no problems.
>
> You could bind mount some part of automount tree. It seems to be used
> by systemd the next generation init daemon

Thanks for the info.  Then we should put Bruno's optimization patch on hold, 
because it is based on an assumption that does not hold in general.

Kamil