Re: Hardlink Pitfalls (was: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels)

From: JÃrn Engel
Date: Mon Jul 16 2007 - 17:14:38 EST


On Mon, 16 July 2007 20:23:04 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> JÃrn Engel wrote:
>
> > The only place that can ensure to always break the
> > link is the kernel. Which is why I wrote the cowlink patches some years
> > back.
>
> Can you post a patch against 2.6.22?

I can and probably will.

> > The still need a lot of love to be merge-ready. But I do use them on a
> > daily basis.
>
> Well, if the patch is lean and optional and runtime configurable, then they
> should definitely be considered for inclusion.

Lean is not the word I would choose. It works. For me. That is about
as much praise as it deserves.

JÃrn

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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, but
not tried it.
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