On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:35:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Ian Kent wrote: > > > > The code we're talking about deals with a race between expiring and > > mounting an autofs mount point at the same time. > > > > I'll have a closer look and see if I can make it work without turning > > the dentry negative. > > Hmm. > > Can you walk me through this? > > If the dentry is unhashed, it means that it _either_ > > - has already been deleted (rmdir'ed) or d_invalidate()'d. Right? > > I don't see why you should ever return the dentry in this case.. >From my reading of that code looks like it's been rmdir'ed. And no, I don't understand what the hell is that code trying to do. Ian, could you describe the race you are talking about? -- 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
