Re: [PATCH 2.5.3-pre1] Fix NFS dentry lookup behaviour

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:15:27 -0800 (PST)


On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> - Close 'cto hole' when doing open(".").

What's wrong with using the existing "revalidate" approach? I hate the
notion of adding a special VFS layer call for something like this.

Linus

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