On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Jeff Layton wrote: > This is the second attempt to fix this problem. The first one attempted > to fix this in procfs, but Eric Biederman pointed out that file bind > mounts have a similar problem. This set attempts to fix the issue at a > higher level, in the generic VFS layer. I suspect the correct fix would be to clean up the open API so that NFSv4 doesn't have to hack its stateful open routine into the ->lookup() and ->d_revalidate() methods. Having said that, doing revalidation for proc symlinks and bind mounts (and not just for opens) might make sense. This is something similar to FS_REVAL_DOT, so perhaps make it conditional on this flag (or a new, appropriately named one). Thanks, Miklos -- 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