Re: [PATCH 4/7] proc: Use d_invalidate in proc_prune_siblings_dcache
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2020-02-20 23:08:36
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- 2020-02-20 · Re: [PATCH 4/7] proc: Use d_invalidate in proc_prune_siblings_dcache · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 2:54 PM Al Viro [off-list ref] wrote:
s/no inode.*/it's a directory inode./
That actually makes my worry go away too. We don't allow aliases for
directory inodes, iirc.
So then it doesn't depend on some /proc implementation issue any more,
then it's fundamental that there's only one dentry.
Linus