On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:18:15AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > FWIW, two things I _really_ want dead and gone are > * timod (or full rewrite of that animal; current one is badly racy > and plays fast and loose with way too many place in VFS guts) > * altroot (use chroot, damnit, and bind whatever you need in there) BTW, the part about altroot goes for other architectures too; it's badly broken and it's one hell of an obstacle to fs/namei.c work of any kind. As absolute minimum we _must_ lose the "if we hadn't found what we wanted in that subtree, repeat lookup starting at real root"; that's causing nightmares in pathname resolution and there's no excuse whatsoever for that since we have bindings. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
