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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Leonardo Chiquitto <leonardo.lists@gmail.com>,
	Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: automount should ignore LOOKUP_FOLLOW
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:37:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17416.1315240659@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87liu37z3x.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu>

Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:

> After 2.6.38, with the introduction of the ->d_automount()
> infrastructure, stat(2) and others would start triggering automount
> while lstat(2), etc. still would not.  This is a regression and a
> userspace ABI change.

It doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong.  The main class of program that needs
to be prevented from automounting are things that do bulk stat'ing (e.g. ls) -
and they should probably be doing lstat() anyway.

> +	/* We don't want to mount if someone's just doing a stat -
> +	 * unless they're stat'ing a directory and appended a '/' to
> +	 * the name.

Btw, line length is 80 chars.  This comment could easily use one fewer line.

If you use emacs you can do:

	ESC 7 9 C-x f

to set the right margin and then:

	M-q

whilst the cursor is in the comment paragraph to be rearranged and it will
'fill' the paragraph to 79 characters.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-05 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-05 16:06 [PATCH] vfs: automount should ignore LOOKUP_FOLLOW Miklos Szeredi
2011-09-05 16:37 ` David Howells [this message]
2011-09-05 17:02   ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-09-06  3:53     ` Ian Kent
2011-09-06  4:03       ` Ian Kent
2011-09-06  8:09       ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-09-06 14:38         ` Ian Kent
2011-09-06 15:39           ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-09-08 12:36             ` Ian Kent
2011-09-08 13:38               ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-09-08 17:42                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-08 19:50                   ` Al Viro
2011-09-08 20:19                     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-08 21:54                       ` Al Viro
2011-09-09  3:37                         ` Ian Kent
2011-09-09  3:33                   ` Ian Kent
2011-09-09  3:18                 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-22 12:29 ` Jeff Layton

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