Re: Cleaning up namei

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:12:36PM -0700, Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote:
> 
> Emulation becomes easier because you could try "under 
> emulation" then  "not under emulation". Doing it all in namei_begin() can 
> make state-keeping challenging.

I'm not sure that works - you have to be very careful in the way symlinks
are expanded.
Although I can't actually remember what I decided the code should do!
(nor whether I implemented something simpler!)

        David

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