Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:10:41 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_lookup.c Message-ID: <199702180710.XAA04401@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:46:43 PST." <199702180646.WAA00450@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>bde 97/02/17 22:46:42 > > Modified: sys/kern vfs_lookup.c > Log: > Fixed namei caching for LOOKUPs. It was broken for lstat() and olstat(). > Successful lstat()s purged an existing entry as well as not caching the > result. > > This bug was introduced in Lite1 by setting the LOCKPARENT flag for > [o]lstat() in order to support the inherit-attributes-from-parent- > directory misfeature for symlinks. LOCKPARENT was previously only set > for CREATEs and DELETEs. It is now set for LOOKUPs, but only for > [o]lstat(), so the problem wasn't very noticeable. We need to revert symlinks back to their traditional behavior (behave like they have an inode), too. I definately want to see this done for 3.0, and I wouldn't mind seeing it done prior to 2.2. NetBSD changed it back months ago. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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