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Subject: RE: getdents64 problem in 2.6.23
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:26:45 -0400
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On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 00:58 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> David, before rewriting getdents et. all may I ask you to apply the
> patch I sent today? Then we will have something that works and go
> from there.

I'm not happy about having fd->raw still pointing to nodes which may no
longer exist. Can't we set it to NULL (and cope with potential fallout)?

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dwmw2