Re: make flock_lock_file_wait static

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:43:08AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > o	vfs_follow_link(): used to interpret symbolic links, which
> > 	might point outside of SAN Filesystem.
> 
> This one is going away very soon, including the whole old-style
> ->follow_link support - for technical reasons.

Not really.  In some cases it _is_ legitimate.  Trivial example:
/proc/self.
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