Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964887AbVKOQdG (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:33:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964856AbVKOQdG (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:33:06 -0500 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:20645 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964852AbVKOQdE (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:33:04 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:32:46 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Howells , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility Message-ID: <20051115163246.GA4959@mail.shareable.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 604 Lines: 18 Linus Torvalds wrote: > And if it _is_ properly named (ie it really does mean "this entry > positively does not exist") then it shouldn't have the same > representation as NULL, because NULL really is traditionally used > for "unknown" rather than "known to not exist". You mean like: > a negative dentry (dentry->d_inode = NULL) is another. ? :) -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/