Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>
> > Note that (inode)->i_sb is now unconditionally dereferenced.
> >
> > Is this a bug or aren't anonymous i_sb-less inodes permitted anymore?
>
> The latter.
Thanks for clarifying this. I'll fix my module.
> > I have a module which exports "objects" to user-space as anonymous
> > files, and the underlying inodes have NULL i_sb fields.
>
> Erm... I guess that you've never tried to do ls -l /proc/<pid>/fd for
> processes blessed by such a gift?
No, never :-)
/Mikael
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