Re: [PATCH 1/4] VFS: Add a VFS helper function vfs_remote_path_lookup()

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On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:52:20AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> OK, that's actually doable.
> See git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git/ cache-root
> for current variant; it's for comments *only* - not for merge.  After that
> one we should be able to do a modified variant of e.g. vfs_path_lookup()
> that would do
> 	get_path(root);
	path_get(root), even
> 	nd->root = root;
> instead of
> 	nd->root.mnt = NULL;
> and have lookup with root set to given place without touching current->fs
> at all.  Warning: this is completely untested.  Not even "does it boot?",
> just a code dump.
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