Al, Just making this public as requested, so potential attendees can chime in. I suppose this was your intention. Thanks, Amir. On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 7:09 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There had been quite a bit of activity around that area > (openat2() series, for example) and IMO the complexity in the damn > thing is getting close to critical - we are not quite at the point > where the average amount of bugs introduced by fixing a bug is greater > than one, but it's uncomfortably close. Quite a few places are > far too subtle and convoluted (anything related to do_last(), for > one thing). > > We need to get that mess under control. I have a (still > growing) series massaging it to somewhat saner shape, but there > are some interesting dark corners that need to be sorted out (situation > around mount traps, for example). > > We definitely need to settle on some description of semantics. > Preferably with a set of litmus tests, similar to what memory model > folks had been doing. > > I would like to catch at least the people who'd been active > around that area. Miklos Szeredi (due to atomic_open involvement, > if nothing else), David Howells and Ian Kent (mount traps, among > other things), Eric Biederman (userns fallouts of all sorts), > Aleksa Sarai (openat2 - most recent large changes in the whole > thing), Jeff Layton (revalidation et.al.)... > _______________________________________________ > Lsf-pc mailing list > Lsf-pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lsf-pc
