Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:34:31 -0700
From: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] notification tree - try 37!
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:58:39AM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> Here it is again!  Another notification pull request!  There is still
> future work to be done on notification, but nothing that I believe
> others would call blocking or functional.  The work I plan to do
> includes:
> 
> 1) Al has discussed the addition of a file_clone() call in the VFS which
> would eliminate my use of __dentry_open() and would allow the removal of
> the rather hideous FMODE_/O_NONOTIFY.

I did a quick search and can't find a mailing list post on this. Was
it a private discussion or is there something I can read about what
file_clone() will do?

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley
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