But I think I have a better way: remove ".." from the system. That does not mean that we can't use "..", only that the kernel would remove any ".." from names before using those names as paths.
I have an experimental 9 kernel with a changed namec that
- cleans the path name given to it (nothing new by now).
- If it starts with "..",
- takes the (string) path from up->dot
- appends the name given to namec
- cleans the resulting path.
Point 1 gets rid of middle ".."'s in the path name, as done always in Plan 9.
Point 2 will make a leading ".." become an intermediate ".." and then get rid of it.
Not much is gained by doing it this way, but for code simplicity. I was able to remove several portions of code that did worry about "..". Moreover, if the experiment works as expected, I will be able to remove even more, because all the machinery in Chan's to walk back from mount points will no longer be needed: there will be no "walk back" in the system.
If you argue that this would require resolving longer paths when you use leading ".."'s, you are right; but hopefully, after a few more changes, the system might be a lot faster. Stay tuned.
By the way, in the course of the experiment I found that cleanname does not play well with kernel device paths...
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