Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Ummm... what happens if sysfs recreates those identical nodes again >> while the old dentries are lingering? The dead ones will linger till >> the submounts are gone and then look ups after that will show the new >> ones, right? > > Yep. On the vfs level. The sysfs dirent tree will reflect what is > going on with the hardware. > > This is a vfs misfeature, that I hope someday we will get fixed. > But for now it is better not to leak mount points. Especially > since no one actually mounts things on sysfs. fuse and debugfs do. :-P Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> -- tejun -- 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
