Re: make flock_lock_file_wait static

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 04:56:50 EST


On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:51:31AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> 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.

Which is an extreme special case an not modular.
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