Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfs: sanitize __d_path()

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Thu, 27 May 2010, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > __d_path() no longer appends " (deleted)" to unlinked paths. ÂThis is
> > moved into d_path() which is the only caller that cares.
> 
> d_path() or equivalent should get "int *deleted" argument to distinguish
> really deleted files. Then users can decide if they care or not.

Why can't they distinguish deleted files by just calling d_unlinked()?

Thanks,
Miklos
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