>From the context of the snippet you posted, it looks like the author
implies a "failed lookup" when s/he writes "negative lookup".
CMIIW.
-mandeep
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Praveen Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to understand the path-lookup in linux filesystem and was going
> thro
Hi,
I am trying to understand the path-lookup in linux filesystem and was going
through https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt
Under 'Rename' heading, I came across the negative lookup terminology,
snapshot below
'Between deleting the dentry from the old hash list,
