Re: Linux VFS related changes in queue (was about revoke(2))

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:08:01 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:55:42 -0600, "Jeff Merkey"
<jmerkey@timpanogas.com> said:

> Do these affect the rest of us? Does this mean I will need to make yet more
> changes for 2.3 over what I'm doing for dentries in 2.2? Sorry I was late
> getting to the party, but I suppose I can work late nights to get caught up.
> Please Advise.

It depends on what you are doing exactly, but the largest impact will
probably be Al Viro's work on redoing the locking surrounding fd
handling: I'd expect that any revoke code will be affected by the
resulting SMP requirements.

--Stephen

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