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Re: [MiNT] Dopendir() fails at hostfs root

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 10:12 +0100, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> >> See the new testscase, which fails on an hostfs root, with any kernel.
> > 
> > O.k. That looks like an ARAnyM bug then.
> 
> ... or a misuse of the hostfs XFS driver by the FreeMiNT kernel.

Doubtful.

> I'm absolutely not familiar with these directory APIs, but I wonder how 
> the ARAnyM driver could be able to open ".." which is actually the "/" 
> directory, belonging to another filesystem (actually the MiNT virtual root).

No different to the way ext2fs or minixfs or fatfs deal with it. Looking
at the aranym code I can see a path which could probably cause this
failure.

Alan.