On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 01:29:05AM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > I assume that VFS can handle this correctly if it wants to. > > I was assuming there was a way to distinguish directory entries, > and that's what should be checked first, which is what my > psuedo code patch attempted to show.
There isn't, in general. Sure, if you get the same struct dentry * from both lookups, it's the same one. But it's not guaranteed to be true on every fs out there if those are non-directories (and for directories there's no multiple hardlinks in the first place). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
