On Nov 29,  5:43pm, yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: NAMECACHE_ENTER_REVERSE (Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern)

| > >then, what's a problem with just failing always and deal with it?
| > 
| > Some linux-emulated rdbm's don't work.
| 
| i'm confused.
| while you can deal with the failure, rdbm's don't work?  what does it mean?

If I deal with the failure, I think that they will work.

| > >something similar to what linux and dragonflybsd do.
| > 
| > I did not want to keep a full pathname buffer in struct proc. There
| > is also the issue of the binary being renamed/removed. I guess those
| > are corner cases that are not worth discussing though.
| 
| is it related to what i said?  i guess you replied to a wrong message.

I thought that Linux stores the pathname.

christos