On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think this is bogus. We don't give a fuck about *any* of those fields
> for symlinks; the only problem here is that default ->getattr() uses
> them to fill ->st_mode et.al. The same goes for ->i_uid/->i_gid.
> So how about simply adding ->getattr() for those guys? And to hell
> with assignments in that ->d_revalidate() instance...
Doing it at getattr() time does sound good.
Let me try to cook something up.
Linus
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