Re: Getting FS access events

H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-15T21:22:48Z

Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> void *.
>
> Look, methods of your address_space certainly know what they hell they
> are dealing with. Just as autofs_root_readdir() knows what inode->u.generic_ip
> really points to.
>
> Anybody else has no business to care about the contents of ->host.
>

Why do we need a ->host at all, then? Why not simply make it a private
pointer?

-hpa

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