linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc 1/6: implement support for automounts in task directories

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Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:07:49 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc 1/6: implement support for automounts in task directories

Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> writes:

> I don't have a lot of opinion on this bug. I checked patchset to fix known
> reproducer, timeout is obviously taken out of air and not nice.
>
> 6/6 looks orthogonal to whole patch series, CCing Andreas just in case.

It is orthogonal.  I happened to notice it, when I was doing the other work.

If you review the code path where proc entries go away to understand
the mount expiry in proc.  proc_flush_task is part of that code path.

Eric
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