getdents64 problem in 2.6.23

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Mon Oct 29 08:58:51 EDT 2007


On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 20:26 -0400, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 00:58 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > David, before rewriting getdents et. all may I ask you to apply the
> > patch I sent today? Then we will have something that works and go
> > from there.
> 
> I'm not happy about having fd->raw still pointing to nodes which may no
> longer exist. Can't we set it to NULL (and cope with potential fallout)?

Thats a diffrent story. Now I fixed the bug so it behaves like the 
!mark_node_obsolete case. Walking through all ->raw references is
something I will save for a rainy dag, I need to fix a few other bugs in
our system ATM.

   Jocke



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