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Date:      Sun, 31 May 1998 12:42:38 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        eivind@yes.no, fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: componentnames to VOPs
Message-ID:  <199805310242.MAA28948@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Is there any documentation as to whether these should be locked by
>namei() or not?

vnodes are locked by namei() according to the LOCKPARENT and LOCKLEAF
flags.  I don't know what you mean by locking a componentname.  If
the parent isn't locked, then the information in the componentname
may become stale.  Mostly you don't care.

Bruce

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