From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 13 18:30:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03888 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 18:30:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.whistle.com (gatekeeper.whistle.com [207.76.204.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03818 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 18:30:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA07616 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 16:42:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from alpo.whistle.com(unknown 207.76.204.38) by gatekeeper.whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma007614; Sat, 13 Feb 99 16:42:15 -0800 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA27796; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 16:30:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from s204m82.isp.whistle.com(207.76.204.82) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdd27794; Sun Feb 14 00:30:14 1999 Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 16:29:53 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@s204m82.isp.whistle.com To: Doug Rabson cc: Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VOP_REMOVE() rules for freeing a_cnp ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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