On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:56:12PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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. > > Oh, forgot the most important bit here :) lookup_one_len is a library helper > never called by the VFS. autofs (v4 at least) doesn't use it so now always > get a nameidata. In fact if you look in -mm there's a patch from me that > makes use of that fact. >
But Will is calling it in a something like a stacking context and autofs fails to handle it. Hence this discussion. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
