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Re: Vnode API change: VOP_LOOKUP



On Feb 6, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Taylor R Campbell 
<campbell+netbsd-tech-kern%mumble.net@localhost> wrote:

>   Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 12:04:27 +0100
>   From: J. Hannken-Illjes <hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost>
> 
>   As announced some weeks ago here comes the API change to VOP_LOOKUP:
> 
>     Change vnode operation lookup to return the resulting vnode *vpp locked.
>     Change cache_lookup() to return an unlocked vnode.
> 
> One more question:  Are you planning to change relookup to return the
> result unlocked, too?  That will enable us to get rid of some ick in
> genfs_rename users.

I have no plans to do it -- I'm not even sure I want to touch any
rename operation :-)

--
J. Hannken-Illjes - hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost - TU Braunschweig 
(Germany)



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