Re: [PATCH 1/4] cifs: make cifs_lookup return a dentry
Al Viro <[email protected]> Sat, 22 May 2010 14:30:51 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs |
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On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 02:25:14PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > cifs_lookup doesn't actually return a dentry. It instantiates the one > that's passed in, but callers don't have any way to know if the lookup > succeeded. Huh? Of course they do - ->lookup() has every right to do just that; d_add() and return NULL is perfectly legitimate. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html