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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
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Subject: Re: [CHECKER] 37 stack variables >= 1K in 2.4.17
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On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> As far as I can see, the cycle essentially is
> link_path_walk -> do_follow_link -> page_follow_link -> vfs_follow_link ->.

[snip the obvious strategy that doesn't work]
 
> Now symlink resolution can be entirely iterative.

Wrong.  That breaks for anything with ->follow_link() that can't be expressed
as a single lookup on some path.

For fsck sake, give the folks here some credit - strategy above is _not_
hard to think up and it had been discussed on l-k several times.

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