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From: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
To: 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 10:00:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050126100002.GH8859@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050126095504.GA7542@infradead.org>

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:55:04AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

I'm not convinced.  Sure, leaving traversal to caller is preferable.
I don't believe that it should be enforced.  That's why we have a way
to enforce a separate limit on that sort of recursion...

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-26 10:00 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
2005-01-26 10:00                       ` Al Viro [this message]
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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