Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:13:11 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports |
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:14:41PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:05:38AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Hello, Andrew, > > > > Some export-removal work causes breakage for an out-of-tree filesystem. > > Could you please apply the attached patch to restore the exports for > > files_lock and set_fs_root? > > What, in name of everything unholy, is *filesystem* doing with set_fs_root()?
It is using it to set the process's view of the source-code control system to the desired version. So process A can see version 2.1 while process B sees version 1.5, and so that either process can change the version that it sees on the fly.
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