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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2012-05-24 00:49:00 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2012-05-24 00:49:00 +0200
commit80dd7372b236a7f4d9ea2e47f5760fde9bbc93b9 (patch)
treec56e68e4ed4057acc817e2172fff3dd013da600f /hurd/translator
parent78d4ca5b4491e1b43f404108c9fdd23a6113c45d (diff)
open_issues/settrans_directory_symlink: New.
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--- a/hurd/translator/short-circuiting.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator/short-circuiting.mdwn
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled
-[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
In traditional [[Unix]], file systems contain special files. These are:
symbolic links, character devices, block devices, named pipes, and
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ To make sure that you use one of these translators, there by bypassing the
short-circuiting mechanism, you can either start it as
an active translator, or use a different path from the one in
`hurd/path.h`, e.g. `settrans bar /hurd/./symlink foo`.
+There is also a `FS_TRANS_FORCE` flag defined for the `file_set_translator`
+RPCs, but it currently isn't set from anywhere.
The best example of how short-circuiting is implemented can be found
in [[`libdiskfs`|libdiskfs]]. Notice how it detects if a translator to store