linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: Add flags to __d_path for suppressing suffix and mapping /proc/self

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Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:23:38 +0200
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Add flags to __d_path for suppressing suffix and
 mapping /proc/self

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:15:23AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:11:37PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > This patch allows __d_path() to
> > (1) suppress " (deleted)" suffix if dentry was already deleted
> 
> This part looks fine to me.

Not to me. It should be

	__d_path(... int *deleted)

and caller decides what to do with deleted files.
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