linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] vfs: remove LOOKUP_PARENT from non LOOKUP

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Message-ID: <20081015194434.GC24892@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:44:34 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] vfs: remove LOOKUP_PARENT from non LOOKUP_PARENT
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:58:11PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> 
> lookup_hash() with LOOKUP_PARENT is bogus. And this prepares to add
> new intent on those path.
> 
> The user of LOOKUP_PARENT intent is nfs only, and it checks whether
> nd->flags has LOOKUP_CREATE or LOOKUP_OPEN, so the result is same.

Makes sense to me, but in this area you really need to work against
Al's vfs.git tree as there's quite some work going on.

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