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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiD_410q9aBfQN44a3pPYrxjqa6OfFf=5ZCr=rCWgTt3A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 22 Feb 2020 18:24:00 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 23/34] merging pick_link() with get_link(), part 6

On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 5:23 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> -       err = pick_link(nd, &path, inode, seq);
> -       if (err > 0)
> -               return get_link(nd);
> -       else
> -               return ERR_PTR(err);
> +       return pick_link(nd, &path, inode, seq);

Yay! It's like Christmas.

Except honestly, I think I'd have been happier if the intermediate
points didn't have that odd syntax in them. Even if it then gets
removed in the end.

               Linus

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