Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 16:29:53 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VOP_REMOVE() rules for freeing a_cnp ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902131628510.306-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902131337370.351-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > I'm sure that someone changed the semantics for who frees the pathnames > and who releases the vnodes during the 3.0 development cycle but I can't > quite remember who (Mike someone maybe, not Mike Smith). I think that the > intention was to always free the path and release the vnodes in the > caller, not in the filesystem (which was supposed to make it easier to > write layers). Mr Hancock in Japan.. He cleaned up a lot of those cases.. > > I have a vague recollection that VOP_RENAME was the only one which wasn't > changed since it does some wildly complicated things with its vnodes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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