Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:32:46 +0000 | | From | Jamie Lokier <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/12] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > And if it _is_ properly named (ie it really does mean "this entry > positively does not exist") then it shouldn't have the same > representation as NULL, because NULL really is traditionally used > for "unknown" rather than "known to not exist".
You mean like:
> a negative dentry (dentry->d_inode = NULL) is another.
? :)
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