From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
viro@zenII.uk.linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: make flock_lock_file_wait static
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:55:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050126095504.GA7542@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050126095131.GF8859@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:51:31AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:43:08AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > o vfs_follow_link(): used to interpret symbolic links, which
> > > might point outside of SAN Filesystem.
> >
> > This one is going away very soon, including the whole old-style
> > ->follow_link support - for technical reasons.
>
> Not really. In some cases it _is_ legitimate. Trivial example:
> /proc/self.
Which is an extreme special case an not modular.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-26 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-09 19:42 make flock_lock_file_wait static Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-09 22:44 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-01-10 8:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-10 8:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-10 14:23 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-01-11 8:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-11 19:16 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-01-11 19:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-25 18:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-26 3:10 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-26 9:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-26 16:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-26 18:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-28 14:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-28 18:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-28 19:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-26 9:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-26 9:51 ` Al Viro
2005-01-26 9:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-01-26 10:00 ` Al Viro
2005-01-15 21:35 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-15 22:07 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-01-10 8:35 ` Ken Preslan
2005-01-10 8:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
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