Re: NCHNAMLEN vnode cache limitation removal

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 07:49:54PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
 > > [...], because fexecve is causing rumbles about doing significantly
 > > more reverse lookups.
 > 
 > Why is everyone so concerned about finding "the" name of an inode, or
 > indeed any name for an inode?  As far as I can tell there has never
 > been any promise that any given inode has any names pointing to it, at
 > least not unless it's got no other references to it (in which case it
 > would be freed if it had no names).
 > 
 > Given the list of smart people I've seen discussing this, I'm
 > presumably just missing something, but what?

Loonix.

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David A. Holland
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