http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354 --- Comment #181 from Anonymous Emailer <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2009-11-08 18:12:03 --- Reply-To: hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 10:07:15PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > That said, I haven't looked at how nasty it would be to change the name > lookup to use <ptr,len>. Maybe it wouldn't be as horrible as I suspect it > is (the filesystems themselves wouldn't need changing, since the lowlevel > filesystem name lookup routines always sees a 'struct dentry' rather than > the pathname). FYI there are other filesystems that historically store the the name without terminating NULL in the symlink and would benefit from that. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
