From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] one of $BIGNUM devfs races
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 14:23:59 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108071419470.18565-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200108071811.f77IBqq06242@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> OK, I've implemented variant 2. Everything looked OK, but then I
> noticed that pwd no longer works in subdirectories in devfs. Sigh.
Very interesting. pwd should be using getcwd(2), which doesn't
give a damn for inode numbers. If you have seriously old pwd binary
that tries to track the thing down to root by hands - yes, it doesn't
work.
> I'll have to get back to it tonight and track this one down. How
> annoying. Still, it was satisfying to rip out the table code.
>
> BTW: I'm not bothering to update atime in the symlink methods. It's
> not important anyway. And if you get you VFS change in, then it should
> just magically save atimes for symlinks again, right?
Yes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-07 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-06 11:58 [PATCH] one of $BIGNUM devfs races Alexander Viro
2001-08-06 16:47 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-06 16:56 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-06 17:11 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-06 23:50 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 0:34 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-07 0:51 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 1:10 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-07 1:27 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 1:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-07 2:00 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 2:15 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-07 5:17 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 5:28 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-07 10:21 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-08-07 17:09 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 17:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-08-07 17:28 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 5:53 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 6:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-07 6:36 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 6:40 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-07 6:47 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 7:31 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-07 18:11 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 18:23 ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2001-08-07 18:55 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 19:10 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-07 22:13 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-06 23:59 Alan Cox
[not found] ` <no.id>
2001-08-06 23:54 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-06 23:55 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-06 23:59 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 16:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-07 19:04 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-07 19:16 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-08 21:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-08-08 21:47 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-08 23:29 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 19:09 ` Richard Gooch
2001-08-07 19:20 ` Alexander Viro
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