On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 01:29:05AM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: > >> > I assume that VFS can handle this correctly if it wants to. >> >> I was assuming there was a way to distinguish directory entries, >> and that's what should be checked first, which is what my >> psuedo code patch attempted to show. > > There isn't, in general. Sure, if you get the same struct dentry * from > both lookups, it's the same one. But it's not guaranteed to be true on > every fs out there if those are non-directories (and for directories there's > no multiple hardlinks in the first place). Does that mean that the current behavior is inconsistent between filesystems. -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- 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
