Yet another magic symlinks implementation

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Sat Nov 4 13:46:14 UTC 2006


On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 02:12:57PM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> >On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:56:29AM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> >> I've ported NetBSD magic symlinks implementation to FreeBSD.
> >> The description of magiclinks can been found here:
> >> http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/symlink.7.html
> >> 
> >> Patch here:
> >> http://butcher.heavennet.ru/patches/kernel/magiclinks/
> >
> >thnx for porting this, have you checked locking? netbsd
> >kernel is still under one giant lock so locking might
> >differ.
> 
> Sorry, i'm not locking guru.. Code seems simple..
> Mybe somebody from committers can see into code?
> Konstantin, Jeff, whath you think?

I don't think that any additional locking is required there.
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