On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 07:34:35PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > I looked at dnotify_flush, they remove markers on an inode. > But then it also checks for filp to match. So I am not sure > whether skipping dnotify_flush for O_PATH descriptor have any impact. We > can't use O_PATH descriptor for dnotify fcntl any way. So in > dnotify_flush we will not match the filp. > > Viro, > > Any reason why we skip dnotify_flush ? See your last sentence above - why bother finding the mark, scanning the list, etc. when we know that there won't be any matches? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
