Always a good idea :-)
> Well, I've just done two blind shots to potentially weak directions
> and found bugs in both ones for 1 minute.
> pipe is broken, nfs is also not clean in some marginal case.
Yes, that's correct. The fs/pipe case wants i_flags = 0, the nfs case
needs i_flags = sb->s_flags. I put patches together last night and will
send them in to Linus.
The moral: users of get_empty_inode() need to be more careful. (Your
morals may vary.)
Regards,
Bill
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