On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Also, did you consider broadening the ->d_revalidate() semantics? It > appears that all implementations return 0 or 1. You could teach the VFS to > also recognise and act upon a -ve return value, and do this trickery within > the autofs d_revalidate(), perhaps? > Now it occurs to me this is the only safe way to do this. And a lot simpler. Al, given this is such a heavily traveled piece of code, do you think it would be acceptable to change the semantics of revalidate in this way. Ian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
