mkfs.ubifs problem when output file really isn't in the UBIFS root directory

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 05:30:52 EDT 2012


On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 11:04 +0200, Marcus Prebble wrote:
> Apologies for the long-winded explanation - but the output file really
> isn't in the the root directory, even though apparently the inodes are
> the same. 

Well, ok, this is a bug. But I think the solution for this should _not_
be a separate "--band-aid" type of option. We should kill 'in_path()'
and implement a 'is_contained(file, dir)' function, which would return
true if 'dir' contains 'file' and false otherwise.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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