On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:55:04AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:51:31AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:43:08AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > o vfs_follow_link(): used to interpret symbolic links, which > > > > might point outside of SAN Filesystem. > > > > > > This one is going away very soon, including the whole old-style > > > ->follow_link support - for technical reasons. > > > > Not really. In some cases it _is_ legitimate. Trivial example: > > /proc/self. > > Which is an extreme special case an not modular.
I'm not convinced. Sure, leaving traversal to caller is preferable. I don't believe that it should be enforced. That's why we have a way to enforce a separate limit on that sort of recursion... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
