From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] dont insert sockets/pipes dentries into dentry_hashtable.
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 08:38:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061101083811.GS29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <454858F2.5020206@cosmosbay.com>
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:21:06AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> And " (deleted)" is correctly added to deleted files.
The hell it will.
touch a
touch b
exec 5<a
mv b a
ls -l /proc/$$/fd/5
With your patch and without it, please.
PS: getting rid of socket dentries is a bad idea with the capital "Fuck, No".
For those who want to see where does that path lead and are attracted to
trainwrecks in general I can recommend *BSD socket handling. They have
paid quite painfully for lack of proper vnodes. It's simply not worth
the resulting trouble.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-01 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-24 14:17 [PATCH] fix integer overflow in H-TCP congestion control Gavin McCullagh
2006-10-24 22:30 ` David Miller
2006-10-25 8:47 ` Gavin McCullagh
2006-10-26 6:06 ` David Miller
2006-10-31 18:48 ` [RFC, PATCH] dont insert sockets/pipes dentries into dentry_hashtable Eric Dumazet
2006-11-01 7:19 ` David Miller
2006-11-01 8:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-01 8:34 ` David Miller
2006-11-01 8:38 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-11-01 8:42 ` Al Viro
2006-11-01 9:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-01 13:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-11-22 18:00 ` [PATCH] [NET] dont insert socket " Eric Dumazet
2006-11-28 23:35 ` David Miller
2006-11-29 0:13 ` Andrew Morton
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