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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFS: Fix automount for negative autofs dentries
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:13:41 +0100
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, autofs@linux.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>

Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> would do the same.

But is much less obvious.  The LOOKUP_FOLLOW flag is the primary reason for
this statement.  The rest are subordinate and would be wholly irrelevant if
LOOKUP_FOLLOW was to be removed from the list.

David