Re: [PATCH] autofs4 needs to force fail return revalidate
From: Ian Kent
Date: Wed Jun 21 2006 - 09:39:25 EST
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Also, did you consider broadening the ->d_revalidate() semantics? It
> appears that all implementations return 0 or 1. You could teach the VFS to
> also recognise and act upon a -ve return value, and do this trickery within
> the autofs d_revalidate(), perhaps?
>
Now it occurs to me this is the only safe way to do this.
And a lot simpler.
Al, given this is such a heavily traveled piece of code, do you think
it would be acceptable to change the semantics of revalidate in this way.
Ian
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