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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-09-27 08:12:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-09-27 08:12:33 -0700
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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 'include/linux/namei.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/namei.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index e13dac7caab2..409328d1cbbb 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ enum {LAST_NORM, LAST_ROOT, LAST_DOT, LAST_DOTDOT, LAST_BIND};
#define LOOKUP_PARENT 0x0010
#define LOOKUP_REVAL 0x0020
#define LOOKUP_RCU 0x0040
-#define LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT 0x0080
+
/*
* Intent data
*/