Re: lookup behaviour with root directory

[Roland McGrath]

O_DIRECTORY is not part of any Hurd RPC protocol.  The implementation
in __hurd_file_name_lookup is the only place that's intended to grok
it.  The problem seems to be in the server dir_lookup code that is
skipping leading slashes.  I really don't know why that is there at
all.  If it serves some valid purpose, then at least it should be:

        while (path[0] == '/' && path[1] != '\0')
          ++path;


Thanks,
Roland