On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> 
> Also, did you consider broadening the ->d_revalidate() semantics?  It
> appears that all implementations return 0 or 1.  You could teach the VFS to
> also recognise and act upon a -ve return value, and do this trickery within
> the autofs d_revalidate(), perhaps?
> 

Now it occurs to me this is the only safe way to do this.
And a lot simpler.

Al, given this is such a heavily traveled piece of code, do you think 
it would be acceptable to change the semantics of revalidate in this way.

Ian

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