Re: make flock_lock_file_wait static

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:55:04AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

I'm not convinced.  Sure, leaving traversal to caller is preferable.
I don't believe that it should be enforced.  That's why we have a way
to enforce a separate limit on that sort of recursion...
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