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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.