Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:32:16 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [d_path 1/7] Fix __d_path() for lazy unmounts and make it unambiguous |
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:23:04 +0200 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> wrote:
> First, when __d_path() hits a lazily unmounted mount point, it tries to prepend > the name of the lazily unmounted dentry to the path name. It gets this wrong, > and also overwrites the slash that separates the name from the following > pathname component. This patch fixes that; if a process was in directory > /foo/bar and /foo got lazily unmounted, the old result was ``foobar'' (note the > missing slash), while the new result with this patch is ``foo/bar''.
ACK the fix
> of ``foobar'' in the example described above. Subsequent patches propose to > make getcwd() fail instead of reporting unreachable paths like this one and > hide unreachable mount points from /proc/mounts.
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