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diff --git a/open_issues/translate_fd_or_port_to_file_name.mdwn b/open_issues/translate_fd_or_port_to_file_name.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..25a74456 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/translate_fd_or_port_to_file_name.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_glibc open_issue_hurd]] + +\#hurd, freenode, June (?) 2010 + + <pochu> is there a way (POSIX or Hurdish) to get the corresponding file name for a fd or a hurd port? + <marcusb> there is a way + <pochu> marcusb: which one would that be? + <marcusb> I forgot + <marcusb> there is an implementation in libc + <marcusb> realpath has a similar job + <marcusb> but that's not what I mean + <marcusb> pochu: maybe I am misremembering. But it was something where you keep looking up .. and list that directory, looking for the node with the ID of the node you had .. for + <marcusb> maybe it works only for directories + <marcusb> yeah + <marcusb> pochu: check the getcwd() implementation of libc + <marcusb> sysdeps/mach/hurd/getcwd.c + <marcusb> _hurd_canonicalize_directory_name_internal + * pochu looks + <pochu> marcusb: interesting + <pochu> though that is for dirs, and doesn't seem to be extensible to files, as you cannot lookup for ".." under a file + <marcusb> right + <pochu> oh you already said that :) + <marcusb> actually, I am not sure that's correct + <marcusb> it's probably correct, but there is no reason why looking .. up on a file couldn't return the directory it's contianed in + <pochu> I don't know the interfaces or the Hurd internals very well yet, but it would look strange to me if you could do that + <marcusb> the hurd is strange + <pochu> it sounds like if you could `ls getcwd.c/..` to get sysdeps/mach/hurd/ :-) + <marcusb> yep + <pochu> ok. interesting + <marcusb> you wouldn't find "ls foo.zip/.." very strange, wouldn't you? + <pochu> I guess not if `ls foo.zip` listed the contents of foo.zip + <marcusb> there you go + <marcusb> or the other way round: would you be surprised if "cat somedir" would work? + <pochu> I think so. if it did, what would it do? + <marcusb> originally, cat dir would list the directory content! + <marcusb> in the old unix times + <pochu> I was surprised the first time I typed `vi somedir` by accident + <marcusb> and some early BSDs + * pochu feels young :-) + <marcusb> he don't worry, I didn't see those times either + <marcusb> technically, files and directories are implemented in the same way in the hurd, they both are objects implementing the fs.defs interface + <marcusb> which combines file and directory operations + <marcusb> of course, files and directories implement those functions differently + <antrik> marcusb: do you know why this behavior (cat on directories) was changed? |