On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > 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). > > Aren't both proc symlinks and bind mounts pretty much guaranteed to > point to a valid dentry? It could for example happen that client bind mounts a regular file, then the file is unlinked on the server. Then the bind mounted dentry is no longer valid. 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
