Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfs: sanitize __d_path()

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
>
> __d_path() no longer appends " (deleted)" to unlinked paths.  This is
> moved into d_path() which is the only caller that cares.

d_path() or equivalent should get "int *deleted" argument to distinguish
really deleted files. Then users can decide if they care or not.

> If a global root is reached then __d_path() no longer prepends the
> name of the root dentry.  This was needed by pseudo filesystems, but
> the d_dname() method has superseded it.
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