kern/51583: [PATCH] allow to work with devices and sockets over nullfs [STABLE, 5.0-CURRENT]

[Brian Buchanan]

The following reply was made to PR kern/51583; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brian Buchanan <bwb at holo.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/51583: [PATCH] allow to work with devices and sockets over
 nullfs [STABLE, 5.0-CURRENT]
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 14:33:55 -0700 (PDT)

 The reason it fails in case #3 is that vp->v_socket is being set on the
 upper layer by unp_bind(), but not on the lower layer, because that code
 is ignorant of filesystem layering.
 
 I'm not sure what the best fix is for this.  Is it acceptable to have
 null_lookup simply return the lower vnode when it's of type VSOCK, or
 would that break something else?