Re: [PATCH] path_lookup for 2.4.20-pre4 (ChangeSet@1.587.10.71)

[Jan Harkes]

One thing you might want to add to avoid revalidating all pathnames that
happen to start with a dot, like '.bashrc'.

Jan

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:04:46PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.22-odirect/fs/namei.c linux-2.4.22-fix_cto/fs/namei.c
> --- linux-2.4.22-odirect/fs/namei.c	2003-06-27 13:34:41.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.4.22-fix_cto/fs/namei.c	2003-07-08 15:51:08.000000000 +0200
> @@ -732,6 +732,24 @@
>  			nd->last_type = LAST_DOT;
>  		else if (this.len == 2 && this.name[1] == '.')
>  			nd->last_type = LAST_DOTDOT;
  +		else
  +			goto return_base;
> +return_reval:
> +		/*
> +		 * We bypassed the ordinary revalidation routines.
> +		 * We may need to check the cached dentry for staleness.
> +		 */