From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 needs to force fail return revalidate
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:39:25 +0800 (WST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606212135540.14481@raven.themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060620233941.49ba2223.akpm@osdl.org>
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Also, did you consider broadening the ->d_revalidate() semantics? It
> appears that all implementations return 0 or 1. You could teach the VFS to
> also recognise and act upon a -ve return value, and do this trickery within
> the autofs d_revalidate(), perhaps?
>
Now it occurs to me this is the only safe way to do this.
And a lot simpler.
Al, given this is such a heavily traveled piece of code, do you think
it would be acceptable to change the semantics of revalidate in this way.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-21 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-21 6:18 [PATCH] autofs4 needs to force fail return revalidate Ian Kent
2006-06-21 6:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-21 13:07 ` Ian Kent
2006-06-21 13:39 ` Ian Kent [this message]
2006-06-23 4:14 ` Ian Kent
2006-06-23 4:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-23 6:43 ` Ian Kent
2006-07-10 10:24 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-10 16:23 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2006-06-21 12:25 ` Al Viro
2006-06-21 13:05 ` Ian Kent
2006-06-21 13:37 ` [autofs] " Jeff Moyer
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