linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] VFS: Add VFS helper functions for setting up private namespaces

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906231950030.3240@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:51:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
cc:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] VFS: Add VFS helper functions for setting up private
 namespaces



On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>
> (it keeps bugging me that the order of args to list_add() gets reversed
> as a result, but clearly with both starting out empty it doesn't
> matter..)

.. and the new one is more logical. "list_add()" really adds the first 
entry to the list pointed to by the second one. It _works_ the other way 
too in this case, as you point out, but now that you mention it, it really 
looks like the pre-patch code is "wrong".

		Linus
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