On 8/15/05, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org> wrote:
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> On Aug 15, 2005, at 1:20 AM, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
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> > The thing is that I have a common function used by all VOPs that
> > create new nodes.  This function bases its decision on the kind of
> > object that has to be created on the value of va_type, and was
> > working fine until I added symlinks, because the attribute had
> > the VNON value.
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> Why not pass the type as a separate argument to that function, and
> then just always pass VLNK in the VOP_SYMLINK() case?  That is what I
> have done in file systems on other operating systems.

Yes, of course I can do that.  I just wanted to avoid it because it seemed
redundant if va_type also held the same value (which always does except
for this specific case).

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