From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: interims VFS queue
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:37:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111029143744.GA2909@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ty6rhpsi.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:18:29PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > 2: I'm still sitting on Andy Whitcroft's "readlinkat: ensure we
> > return ENOENT for the empty pathname for normal lookups" and its
> > fixup. I'd marked this as needed-in-3.1. Help.
>
>
> I had discussed this with Al Viro. He mentioned that he wanted to do it
> differently.
We will have to put a fix in, given that it is a regression in syscall
behaviour from a previous version. I don't overly like the impact
the current patch has, but unless we can come up with something better
rather quickly I think we have to put Andy's patch in for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-29 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-28 13:30 interims VFS queue Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-28 18:43 ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-10-28 19:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-10-28 19:31 ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-10-28 19:13 ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-10-28 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-29 10:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-29 11:49 ` caching the request queue was " Andi Kleen
2011-11-02 2:47 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-10-30 7:36 ` Tao Ma
2011-10-31 7:24 ` [PATCH for 3.2] fs/direct-io.c: Calculate fs_count correctly in get_more_blocks Tao Ma
2011-10-31 18:12 ` Jeff Moyer
2011-11-01 3:31 ` Tao Ma
2011-11-02 2:26 ` [PATCH V2 " Tao Ma
2011-11-02 7:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-03 3:21 ` Tao Ma
2011-10-29 13:48 ` interims VFS queue Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-29 14:37 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-10-30 15:47 ` Hans Verkuil
2011-11-02 13:28 ` interims VFS queue, part2 Christoph Hellwig
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