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To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: UNIFIED FILE SYSTEM PATCHES, PLEASE APPLY 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Aug 95 17:20:04 MDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 16:33:08 -0700
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>I have just uploaded a set of patches that are general cleanup patches
>for file system related code, with special emphasis on cleanup of the
>use of the namei() interface.
>
>	freefall.cdrom.com:~terry/UNI.diff.gz
>
>There is no README for this patch set.
>
>Mostly, these patches deal with using NDINIT() rather than manually
>initializing the equivalent pieves of the nameidata structure before
>passing the data to namei().  The biggest offenders in this area are
>the binary compatability modules.

   These patches sound interesting and I plan to integrate most or all of them
as soon as I get some time to do it.
   BTW, only one mailing list need be mentioned (probably hackers).

-DG