On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 04:42:07PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote: > > One more question: Are you planning to change relookup to return the > > result unlocked, too? That will enable us to get rid of some ick in > > genfs_rename users. > > I have no plans to do it -- I'm not even sure I want to touch any > rename operation :-) > > Heh, OK! I guess dh or I will take care of that when we do next do > some namei or rename rototilling. It will just let us get rid of an > extraneous lock/unlock cycle when looking up each child in rename. > (The other callers of relookup can just do a vn_lock right afterward.)
relookup should probably stay the same as namei (including/because of various flag interactions)... however, there *are* no other callers of relookup. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org