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Date:      Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:40:02 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r276008 - in head/sys: kern sys
Message-ID:  <201412220940.02509.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <5496F37D.5030903@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201412211332.sBLDW8VC030548@svn.freebsd.org> <20141221151425.GX2148@kib.kiev.ua> <5496F37D.5030903@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sunday, December 21, 2014 11:21:17 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 21/12/2014 17:14, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 04:45:28PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >> On 21/12/2014 16:41, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> >>> Or, are you asking why caching of the name could be needed for
> >>> core dump files at all ?
> >>
> >> Sort of. Why VN_OPEN_NAMECACHE is useful in the case of core dumps?
> >> What does it make better?
> > The vn_fullpath() mostly works for the core files after the change,
> > comparing with the non-working state at all before.
> > 
> 
> Ah, vn_fullpath(). Thank you.

Is there something specific to core dumps that makes vn_fullpath() more
useful to have working before a process tries to open the core?  (As
compared to other newly-created files)

-- 
John Baldwin



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