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SubjectRe: [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename
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On 2012-02-02, at 2:24 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> FWIW, there's something we really should've done a long time ago: putting
> that limit into sb->s_max_links. With 0 meaning "leave all checks to
> ->link/->mkdir/->rename". Something like the following would make a
> reasonable start - just the conversion of obvious cases. As the next
> step I'd probably initialize it as ~0U instead of 0 and let the filesystems
> that want something trickier (reiserfs, ext4, gfs2, ocfs2) explicitly set
> it to 0 in their foo_fill_super(). That would take care of a bunch of cases
> where we forgot to do those checks (ubifs, hfsplus, jffs2, ramfs, etc.) and
> it's probably a saner default anyway.

This would also give userspace some hope of pathconf(path, _PC_LINK_MAX)
returning the actual value from the filesystem, instead of hard-coding
this into glibc itself based on the statfs-returned f_type magic value.

Cheers, Andreas







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