On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > on rechecking the current stable kernel code, I found some places where jiffies > > were compared in a way that seems to break when they wrap. For these, > > I made up patches to use the macros "time_before()" or "time_after()" > > that are supposed to handle wraparound correctly. > > > > Well, you didn't do a very good job, because these are safe (in fact, I > believe this is exactly how the macros are implemented.) >
OK, I didn't notice that d_time stores the time until which the dentry is valid, contrary to NFS and SMB, where the time of the last lookup is stored. Forget the patch, and sorry for bothering you Tim _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
