On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 2:54 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > s/no inode.*/it's a directory inode./ That actually makes my worry go away too. We don't allow aliases for directory inodes, iirc. So then it doesn't depend on some /proc implementation issue any more, then it's fundamental that there's only one dentry. Linus