Re: [PATCH] one of $BIGNUM devfs races

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Tue, 7 Aug 2001 14:23:59 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:

> OK, I've implemented variant 2. Everything looked OK, but then I
> noticed that pwd no longer works in subdirectories in devfs. Sigh.

Very interesting. pwd should be using getcwd(2), which doesn't
give a damn for inode numbers. If you have seriously old pwd binary
that tries to track the thing down to root by hands - yes, it doesn't
work.

> I'll have to get back to it tonight and track this one down. How
> annoying. Still, it was satisfying to rip out the table code.
>
> BTW: I'm not bothering to update atime in the symlink methods. It's
> not important anyway. And if you get you VFS change in, then it should
> just magically save atimes for symlinks again, right?

Yes.

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