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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:12:55 +0200
From:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sysfs root link count broken in 2.6.22-git5

Hi Greg,

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:48:44 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:42:32PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > I'm running 2.6.22-git5 and noticed that the link count of the sysfs
> > root is broken:
> > 
> > $ ls -ld /sys
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 15 12:27 /sys
> > 
> > sysfs is mounted, the link count should be 11, and is with kernel
> > 2.6.22.1. find(1) complains about the bad link count.
> 
> I suggest updating your version of find(1), I get no such complaint
> with:
> 	$ find --version
> 	GNU find version 4.3.8
> 	Built using GNU gnulib version 2007-05-26
> 	Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION FTS() CBO(level=0)
> 
> What are you using?

$ find --version
GNU find version 4.2.28
Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION

This is the standard version in openSuse 10.2. But how does it matter?
sysfs is broken, not find(1). Don't you see the sysfs root link count
at 2 as I do? This needs to be fixed.

-- 
Jean Delvare
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