Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:53:42 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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       Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
       walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts
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Hi,

On Feb 14 2007 14:57, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
>[2]
>    ------------------------
>pipe:			"pipe:[439336]" (or "pipe/[439336]")
>
>[3] Always make disconnected paths double-slashed:
>--------------------------------------------------
>pipe:			"//pipe/[439336]"
>lazily umounted dir:	"//dir/file"
>lazily unmounted fs:	"//file"
>unreachable root:	"//"
>
>Opinions?

As for [2]/[3]:

What's the point in changing pipefs... you can *never*
reach it *anyway*, even if it was a /-style path, since
pipefs is a NOMNT filesystem.

That said, programs like lsof might break when it changes
away from "pipe:[integer]" (same goes for socket:, etc.)


Jan
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