Re: Fix for SMP deadlock in autofs4

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 02:21:38AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Looks sane for me. However, I would add check for dentry being hashed and
> would skip the unhashed ones. Otherwise you can get a directory that
> had been removed but is still busy - doesn't look like a right thing to
> do. Jeremy?

It wouldn't hurt.  It can't happen in practice since unlink/rmdir happen
in very controlled ways (only the automount daemon is allowed to perform
those ops, so it will keep them in sync).

        J

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