Re: [PATCH] Bind Mount Extensions 0.04 (linux-2.4.25)

From: Herbert Poetzl
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 22:00:33 EST


On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:29:32PM +0000, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:55:59AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > if (count != 0) {
> > - UPDATE_ATIME(file->f_dentry->d_inode);
> > + UPDATE_ATIME(file->f_dentry->d_inode, file->f_vfsmnt);
>
> For crying out loud... Make that touch_file(file) and be done with that.
> There's a lot of places where we do just that (touch atime of opened file)
> and passing pair of vfsmount and inode (not even vfsmount and dentry) is
> just plain wrong.

I guess 2.4 will not allow to many changes in this regard,
but maybe I'm wrong and deeper changes have a chance to
be accepted into mainline to 'mend' the 'broken' behaviour

best,
Herbert
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