Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: inodes are not cleared! | Date | Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:35:53 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net> said: > Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich wrote: [...] > > Here is a patch fixing initialization of sockets.
> Another possibility we could consider would be modify the VFS where > needed to treat sockets differently. There is a flag saying whether an > inode belongs to a socket, and in some cases is may make more sense to > process the socket inode differently rather than set up fields that have > no use for sockets.
I'm not sure that will be faster than a memcpy over the offending parts. And it will get you back to the problems before: This won't be fixed in a timely manner, leading to further bugs down the line.
Just curious: How come this inode clearing is performance critical? My gut tells me this shouldn't be exactly the most frequent operation around... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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