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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@lazybastard.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
	Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] introduce I_SYNC
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 10:15:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070516101535.94e44b3b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070516170110.GC8113@lazybastard.org>

On Wed, 16 May 2007 19:01:14 +0200 Jörn Engel <joern@lazybastard.org> wrote:

> This patch introduces a new flag, I_SYNC and seperates out all sync()
> users of I_LOCK to use the new flag instead.

gack, you like sticking your head in dark and dusty holes.

If we're going to do this then please let's get some exhaustive commentary
in there so that others have a chance of understanding these flags without
having to do the amount of reverse-engineering which you've been put through.
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-16 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-16 17:01 [PATCH resend] introduce I_SYNC Jörn Engel
2007-05-16 17:15 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-05-16 17:47   ` Jörn Engel
2007-05-31 14:25   ` Jörn Engel
2007-05-31 18:06     ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-05-31 22:46     ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-01 12:00       ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-01  8:59 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-06-01 11:56   ` Jörn Engel

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