Re: [PATCH] umount after bad chdir

[raven]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 raven@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > Mind you, chdir() patch in -mm is broken in a lot of other ways - e.g.
> > it assumes that another thread sharing ->fs with us won't call chdir()
> > in the wrong moment...
> 
> Thanks for your interest Al.
> 
> I see your point (I think).
> 
> If I understand you correctly (please explain if I don't) I need to lock 
> the ->fs struct.

Mmm ... doesn't look much good in the light of Als comment.

Looks like it's not possible to take the lock for long enough even if I 
could.

Lets have some comments, criticisms or suggestions please.

Ian

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