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-rw-r--r--hurd/translator/mtab/discussion.mdwn3
-rw-r--r--hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn4
-rw-r--r--hurd/translator/short-circuiting.mdwn6
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/translator/mtab/discussion.mdwn b/hurd/translator/mtab/discussion.mdwn
index d663d4c5..6bb446a0 100644
--- a/hurd/translator/mtab/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator/mtab/discussion.mdwn
@@ -1964,6 +1964,9 @@ In context of [[open_issues/mig_portable_rpc_declarations]].
<teythoon> right, so now at last I got the whole question :)
<braunr> :)
<teythoon> ugh, I just found the FS_RETRY_MAGICAL handler in the libc :-/
+
+[[interface/dir_lookup]].
+
<braunr> ?
<braunr> why "ugh" ?
<teythoon> well, I'm inclined to think this is the bad kind of magic ;)
diff --git a/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn b/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn
index 54de54c2..628cb396 100644
--- a/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn
@@ -125,7 +125,9 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
<braunr> but when they do, they do
+<a name="self">
# `/proc/self`
+</a>
## IRC, freenode, #hurd, around 2010-09
@@ -151,6 +153,8 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
<antrik> in either case, it can't hurt to bring this up again :-)
[[mtab/discussion]], *IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-09-07*.
+Look at `[glibc]/hurd/lookup-retry.c` for how [[`FS_RETRY_MAGICAL`
+lookups|interface/dir_lookup]] work.
# root group
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.