From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [autofs] [RFC PATCH]autofs4: hang and proposed fix Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 12:12:39 +0000 Message-ID: <20051209121239.GA17898@infradead.org> References: <1133547148.8976.25.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20051204125612.GA28229@infradead.org> <20051204125740.GB28229@infradead.org> <20051204171729.GA31111@infradead.org> <17302.157.540958.723305@segfault.boston.redhat.com> <20051206214033.GA31000@infradead.org> <1133968943.4581.22.camel@brilong-lnx> <43971FFF.2090900@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Brian Long , Jeff Moyer , autofs mailing list , Trond Myklebust , linux-fsdevel , Ian Kent Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:16319 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932313AbVLIMMz (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2005 07:12:55 -0500 To: Will Taber Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43971FFF.2090900@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:46:39PM -0500, Will Taber wrote: > problem at hand. Anyway, with this information, is it appropriate for > us to replace our calls to lookup_one_len with calls to path_walk or is > that also forbidden? path_walk and firends resolve a full path. As such they are definitly not suitable for stackable filesystem, they are intendeded only for implementating syscalls (and syscall-like interfaces, e.g. some ioctls)