Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:08:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [CHECKER] 37 stack variables >= 1K in 2.4.17 |
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On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> As far as I can see, the cycle essentially is > link_path_walk -> do_follow_link -> page_follow_link -> vfs_follow_link ->.
[snip the obvious strategy that doesn't work]
> Now symlink resolution can be entirely iterative.
Wrong. That breaks for anything with ->follow_link() that can't be expressed as a single lookup on some path.
For fsck sake, give the folks here some credit - strategy above is _not_ hard to think up and it had been discussed on l-k several times.
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