From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
Cc: linux kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VFS + path walktrough
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 14:13:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080505131307.GM5882@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080505130623.GC32019@nibiru.local>
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> We could just add another call vector to struct file_operations,
> as replacement for link_path_walk() - if it's zero, the original
> function is used. This way an filesystem can do the walktrough
> by it's own, but doesn't need to.
>
>
> What do you think about this ?
That you have quite forgotten about mounts. And we *REALLY* don't
want to shift the entire logics of link_path_walk() into filesystems -
this is insane. Even "let's follow that symlink" part alone, not to
mention mountpoint handling, populating dcache, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-05 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 12:40 VFS + path walktrough Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-05 13:06 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-05 13:13 ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-05-05 13:43 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-05 15:35 ` Al Viro
2008-05-05 16:43 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 17:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 17:14 ` Al Viro
2008-05-05 17:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 17:40 ` Al Viro
2008-05-05 18:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 18:31 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 20:16 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-05-05 20:35 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 18:50 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-05 18:23 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-05 18:34 ` Al Viro
2008-05-05 19:02 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-05 19:09 ` Al Viro
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