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Date:      Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:22:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys namei.h src/sys/kern vfs_syscalls.c
Message-ID:  <20050413022133.Y28571@mail.chesapeake.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050409141050.GQ60345@elvis.mu.org>
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On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> [050409 07:06] wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> > > * Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> [050409 06:56] wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > * Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> [050409 06:46] wrote:
> > > > > > * Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> [050409 06:33] wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I don't understand, where does autofs inspect this flag?
> > > > >
> > > > > You are right about the name being misleading and the docs being
> > > > > nearly useless to explain it.  I will update the docs to reflect
> > > > > what it actually is useful for when we get this fixed up.
> > > >
> > > > Where is the actual code that inspects this, is what I'm asking.  I
> > > > understand the use-case, I just don't know where that actually happens.
> > >
> > > It is not currently published, but doing this puts yet another
> > > hurdle in the way of me publishing it.
> >
> > Ok, that's good enough for me.  I'm fine leaving it in as long as the uses
> > aren't hypothetical.  I'm going to rename it though as it has nothing to
> > do with vm objects anymore.
> >
> > >
> > > And as Jim Reese said, nfsv4 can make use of it.
>
> Thank you very much.  I'll update the docs when you're done.

Don't you only need to know which calls are going to open, or do you also
need modifying ops like unlike and rename?

>
> --
> - Alfred Perlstein
> - Research Engineering Development Inc.
> - email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684
>



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