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SubjectRe: inodes are not cleared!
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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...
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