Re: [RFC] change of lookup() method.

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 21:31:56 -0700 (PDT)

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On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> Folks, right now we have ->lookup() returning 0 in case of success
> (in which case the argument gets hashed and becomes either positive or
> negative) or a negative integer in case of error (too long name, etc.).
> Proposed change: make it return a pointer to struct dentry.

Yes. This was what I was going to do for 2.3.x anyway - there are
filesystems like autofs that want to switch dentries on you even in the
absense of aliases.

I wasn't planning on doing this for 2.2.x, though. Do you have overriding
concerns?

Linus

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