From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ami Fischman <ami@fischman.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug with automount-dir-prefix handling in abbreviate-file-name
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:45:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv63d0z125.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9aa0cfde0908061139tdf0851dlfddcad826c24af1a@mail.gmail.com> (Ami Fischman's message of "Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:39:31 -0700")
> I suspect that automount-dir-prefix was meant to address some other
> problem that possibly manifested only in older automounters, but I've
> been unable to find evidence to back this up. Can you explain more
> explicitly what that behavior was and what the variable is actually
> meant to do?
automount-dir-prefix was designed for automounters that didn't benefit
from as good kernel suppport as is available nowadays, so in order to
automount /foo/bar, they mounted it onto /tmp_mnt/foo/bar and then made
/foo/bar a symlink to it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-07 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-06 16:35 bug with automount-dir-prefix handling in abbreviate-file-name Ami Fischman
2009-08-06 16:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-06 17:07 ` Ami Fischman
2009-08-06 18:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-06 18:39 ` Ami Fischman
2009-08-07 4:45 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-08-07 8:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-07 14:20 ` Ami Fischman
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