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DateThu, 17 Jan 2002 17:24:34 -0500 (EST)
FromAlexander Viro <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.5.3-pre1] Fix NFS dentry lookup behaviour

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >
> >  - Close 'cto hole' when doing open(".").
> 
> What's wrong with using the existing "revalidate" approach? I hate the
> notion of adding a special VFS layer call for something like this.

Nothing, especially since it will happen automatically when we switch
to slightly different handling of cwd/root (no user-visible changes,
will allow union-mounts - basically, cleanup of first and last steps
of path_walk()).

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