On 14-Apr-2000 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> However, I also wonder what keeps the dentries around?
It is the same as ramfs. It keeps an extra ref to pin them down, but
only when they're positive dentries. Negative ones are free to be
collected.
See the line
ino->dentry = dget(dentry);
in autofs4_dir_mkdir and symlink, and
dput(ino->dentry);
in rmdir and unlink.
J
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