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diff --git a/hurd/translator/short-circuiting.mdwn b/hurd/translator/short-circuiting.mdwn index 6f608fb2..438e8d80 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/short-circuiting.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/short-circuiting.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2012, 2014 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 @@ -42,7 +43,8 @@ as translators at all. Translator short-circuiting is when a file system server implements the functionality of a passive translator itself, instead of actually starting it. For instance, all the [[`symlink`|symlink]] translator does is return -a `FS_RETRY_*` reply to the caller. So instead of starting it, the file +a [[`FS_RETRY_*`|interface/dir_lookup]] reply to the caller. +So instead of starting it, the file system server can simply continue the file name look-up internally by appending the target of the symbolic link to the path being looked-up. |