On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 08:22:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Yes, I also thought that AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT would need to be removed and > > AT_AUTOMOUNT added as part of the change. But that can be done as a > > follow up. > > In fact, since reasonably automounting will always be an issue only > for directories (yeah, in theory you could extend it to regular files, > but why would you?) it's probably not even worth adding AT_AUTOMOUNT > at all - you can do the same thing by just adding a '/' at the end of > the filename instead, and suddenly it works for *all* the stat() > family system calls, not just the odd statat() ones that almost nobody > uses. > > So it would be easy to add the AT_AUTOMOUNT flag, but whoever argues > for it would have to be pretty convincing as to why it would be worth > it. > > I committed the patch I sent out with your and Trond's acks. Does any of this make any sense for the 3.0-stable tree as well? greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
