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Re: [CFT][PATCH] namespaces patch (2.4.5-pre6)

2001-05-25 Thread David L. Parsley
Alexander Viro wrote: Folks, new version of the patch is on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/namespaces-c-S5-pre6.gz News: * ported to 2.4.5-pre6 * new (cleaner) locking mechanism * lock_super() is starting to become fs-private thing - first steps to removing it from VFS

Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 25 May 2001 00:00, Hans Reiser wrote: Daniel Phillips wrote: I suppose I'm just reiterating the obvious, but we should eventually have a generic filesystem transaction API at the VFS level, once we have enough data points to know what the One True API should be. Daniel,

Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-25 Thread Edgar Toernig
Daniel Phillips wrote: Oops, oh wait, there's already another open point: your breakage examples both rely on opening .. You're right, . should always be a directory and I believe that's enforced by the VFS. So we don't have an example of breakage yet. That's just because I did a simple

Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 24 May 2001 22:59, Edgar Toernig wrote: Daniel Phillips wrote: Readdir fills in a directory type, so ls sees it as a directory and does the right thing. On the other hand, we know we're on a device filesystem so we will next open the name as a regular file, and find

Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 24 May 2001 23:26, Alexander Viro wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2001, Edgar Toernig wrote: What *won't* happen is, you won't get side effects from opening your serial ports (you'd have to open them without O_DIRECTORY to get that) so that seems like a little step forward. As

[CFT][PATCH] namespaces patch (2.4.5-pre6)

2001-05-25 Thread Alexander Viro
Folks, new version of the patch is on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/namespaces-c-S5-pre6.gz News: * ported to 2.4.5-pre6 * new (cleaner) locking mechanism * lock_super() is starting to become fs-private thing - first steps to removing it from VFS code are done. Please, help with