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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-09-27 08:12:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-09-27 08:12:33 -0700 |
| commit | b6c8069d3577481390b3f24a8434ad72a3235594 (patch) | |
| tree | 43133cbf05bacec887cf010db32589e726a87154 /fs/stat.c | |
| parent | 815d405ceff0d6964683f033e18b9b23a88fba87 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b6c8069d3577481390b3f24a8434ad72a3235594.tar.gz lwn-b6c8069d3577481390b3f24a8434ad72a3235594.zip | |
vfs: remove LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag
That flag no longer makes sense, since we don't look up automount points
as eagerly any more. Additionally, it turns out that the NO_AUTOMOUNT
handling was buggy to begin with: it would avoid automounting even for
cases where we really *needed* to do the automount handling, and could
return ENOENT for autofs entries that hadn't been instantiated yet.
With our new non-eager automount semantics, one discussion has been
about adding a AT_AUTOMOUNT flag to vfs_fstatat (and thus the
newfstatat() and fstatat64() system calls), but it's probably not worth
it: you can always force at least directory automounting by simply
adding the final '/' to the filename, which works for *all* of the stat
family system calls, old and new.
So AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT (and thus LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) really were just a
result of our bad default behavior.
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/stat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/stat.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c index ba5316ffac61..78a3aa83c7ea 100644 --- a/fs/stat.c +++ b/fs/stat.c @@ -81,8 +81,6 @@ int vfs_fstatat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, struct kstat *stat, if (!(flag & AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)) lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_FOLLOW; - if (flag & AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT) - lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT; if (flag & AT_EMPTY_PATH) lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_EMPTY; |