Re: patch for minix fs -- need testers!

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
30 Jan 1998 10:52:03 +0100


Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net> writes:

|> I looked through your patch and did have one reservation -- I'm not sure that
|> modifying the argument qstr in the dentry_op hash function is properly
|> supported. There's currently no precedent for doing this you might also
|> need to modify the name string for null termination.

No. lookup_dentry doesn't terminate it either, and nothing depends on it.
There's no place for the null anyway. I don't see a problem with this.
The qstr has just been freshly allocated. This works as if lookup_dentry
had stopped after s_namelen chars by itself. Also, i want the truncated
name to be used by d_path.

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