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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>,
       torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: [BK-PATCH 1/3] Introduce fs/inode.c::ilookup().
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 18:25:24 +0200
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On Saturday 07 September 2002 16:27, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Linus,
> 
> This is the first of three patches implementing ilookup(), a function
> to search the inode cache for an inode and if not found just return NULL.
> 
> All response about ilookup() / ilookup5() was positive and several
> file systems would like to have such a function available.

Well, one person thought it should be called ifind.

-- 
Daniel

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