> _What_ "pathname translations"? Pathname resolution doesn't fall back to > seq_writelock() at all. I meant the translation of dentry to pathname that this thread is about. Apologies for my confusing abbreviation. Since the reverse translation (pathname to dentry) is done a level at a time and people understand that it's not atomic, I agree with Linus that a livelock there is too remote a possibility to worry about. -- 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
