[linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH 08/10] cifs: remove cifs_readlink and CIFSSMBQueryReparseLinkInfo

[Steve French]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> CIFSSMBQueryReparseLinkInfo is only called by cifs_readlink, and
> cifs_readlink is never called by anything. A quick look at
> CIFSSMBQueryReparseLinkInfo shows that it has several problems
> with handling of endianness as well.

What happens when we read a Junction with current code then?

Windows allows users to create a "junction" (see the Windows utilities
"linkd.exe",  "ln.exe" and "fsutil").  Junctions look a little like a
symlink.  Although usually they have absolute paths, I think that they
can be created with relative paths like a symlink.    We probably
ought to make sure we can handle this before we remove this.


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Thanks,

Steve