Re: [PATCH 6/28] VFS: Make expiry recursive

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:41:31AM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote:
> This patch allows for tagging of vfsmounts as being part of a sub-tree
> expiry.  It introduces a new vfsmount flag, MNT_CHILDEXPIRE which is used to
> let the system know that the given mountpoint expires with its parent.  This
> is a recursive definition.
> 
> mnt_expiry, the call used to specify that a mount should expire, now takes an
> int described as follows:
>    -  0  -   The mountpoint should not expire (default)
>    - >0  -   The value is used to specify the amount of idle time before the
>              given mountpoint expires.
>    - <0  -   The mountpoint must expire with it's immediate parent.  (parent
>              must be set to expire, or must be itself be marked to expire
>              along with _its_ parent.

so add some constant for this, ala

#define MNT_EXPIRE_RECURSIVE	(-1)

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