Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

On Thursday 15 February 2007 04:53, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> What's the point in changing pipefs... you can *never*
> reach it *anyway*, even if it was a /-style path, since
> pipefs is a NOMNT filesystem.

The point is that we could then get rid of the special case for MS_NOUSER 
filesystems like pipefs in __d_path(). (This special case caused the lazy 
unmounted dir bug in the first place.) It is likely not really worth it, 
though.

Andreas
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