On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:12:27PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 01:29 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > > > > > It's sufficient to recognize the nameidata struct is NULL on a call > > > from lookup_hash nothing more that I'm aware of is needed. If that > > > changes > > > then of course autofs will need to be changed. autofs also makes > > > assumptions about what flags are set for different reasons. > > > > Consider those cases where the VFS calls ->lookup()/->d_revalidate() > > with the nameidata argument set to NULL to be bugs. They are pretty much > > all slated to be fixed soon in order to enable features like read-only > > bind mounts etc. > > They are still NULL in exactly one case: lookup_one_len. Given the design > of lookup_one_len we can't get at a nameidata there at all. >
and I'll use that to detect the lookup_one_len call. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
