Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 20:06:24 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>, 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 04:34:31PM -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> 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?

I'm also totally missing on any re-post of these patches or discussion
of the changes during the last development window.

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