Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:51:31 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>, viro@zenII.uk.linux.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: make flock_lock_file_wait static
Message-ID: <20050126095131.GF8859@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
References: <20050109194209.GA7588@infradead.org> <1105310650.11315.19.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1105345168.4171.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1105346324.4171.16.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1105367014.11462.13.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1105432299.3917.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1105471004.12005.46.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1105472182.3917.49.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050125185812.GA1499@us.ibm.com> <20050126094308.GA7326@infradead.org>
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:43:08AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > o	vfs_follow_link(): used to interpret symbolic links, which
> > 	might point outside of SAN Filesystem.
> 
> This one is going away very soon, including the whole old-style
> ->follow_link support - for technical reasons.

Not really.  In some cases it _is_ legitimate.  Trivial example:
/proc/self.
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