From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>,
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
miklos@szeredi.hu, Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, gregkh@suse.de,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, leonardo.lists@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFS: Suppress automount on [l]stat, [l]getxattr, etc.
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:54:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14156.1316796889@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzgqrtwgH1j0i-XH0kDwicLWPCA=1W57gjy9EP23k4Ffw@mail.gmail.com>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > getxattr and co. are trickier because they don't have an AT_ flags form, and
> > it can be argued that these, lgetxattr and co. included should automount.
> > However, that would seriously upset ls, so I think we have to leave lgetxattr
> > not automounting, and so getxattr should follow.
>
> Why?
>
> If you really want to follow, use the '/' at the end.
Sorry, 'follow' as in follow what lgetxattr does, not 'follow' as in
automount. Bad choise of verb.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-23 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-22 13:45 [PATCH] VFS: Suppress automount on [l]stat, [l]getxattr, etc David Howells
2011-09-22 14:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-09-22 16:04 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-22 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-22 16:45 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-22 17:35 ` Jeff Layton
2011-09-22 18:44 ` Jeff Layton
2011-09-22 19:20 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-09-22 22:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-23 0:56 ` Myklebust, Trond
2011-09-23 1:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-23 1:21 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-09-23 7:25 ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-09-23 10:57 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-23 3:15 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-23 10:33 ` David Howells
2011-09-23 14:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-09-23 14:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-23 15:01 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-09-23 15:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-23 15:41 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-23 16:19 ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-09-23 16:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-23 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <13920.1316796007@redhat.com! >
2011-09-23 16:54 ` David Howells [this message]
2011-09-23 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-23 16:40 ` David Howells
2011-09-23 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-23 15:18 ` David Howells
2011-09-23 16:10 ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-09-24 1:30 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-24 1:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-24 2:31 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-24 11:36 ` Jeff Layton
2011-09-24 15:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-26 5:11 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-26 20:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-26 21:13 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-09-26 21:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-26 21:31 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-09-26 22:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-26 22:33 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-09-26 22:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-26 23:09 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-09-26 23:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-27 0:59 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-09-27 1:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-27 4:24 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-27 3:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-27 4:16 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-27 4:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-27 4:51 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-27 14:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-27 15:11 ` Myklebust, Trond
2011-09-29 9:32 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-27 15:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-27 17:38 ` Greg KH
2011-09-27 17:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-27 18:00 ` Greg KH
2011-09-27 20:18 ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-09-27 22:38 ` Greg KH
2011-09-27 13:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] VFS: Fix the remaining automounter semantics regressions Trond Myklebust
2011-09-27 13:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] VFS: Document automounter semantics Trond Myklebust
2011-09-23 15:23 ` [PATCH] VFS: Suppress automount on [l]stat, [l]getxattr, etc David Howells
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