cvs commit: src/sys/sys namei.h src/sys/kern vfs_syscalls.c

[Jeff Roberson]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * Jeff Roberson <jroberson at chesapeake.net> [050409 06:56] wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> > > * Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org> [050409 06:46] wrote:
> > > > * Jeff Roberson <jroberson at chesapeake.net> [050409 06:33] wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't understand, where does autofs inspect this flag?
> > >
> > > You are right about the name being misleading and the docs being
> > > nearly useless to explain it.  I will update the docs to reflect
> > > what it actually is useful for when we get this fixed up.
> >
> > Where is the actual code that inspects this, is what I'm asking.  I
> > understand the use-case, I just don't know where that actually happens.
>
> It is not currently published, but doing this puts yet another
> hurdle in the way of me publishing it.

Ok, that's good enough for me.  I'm fine leaving it in as long as the uses
aren't hypothetical.  I'm going to rename it though as it has nothing to
do with vm objects anymore.

>
> And as Jim Reese said, nfsv4 can make use of it.
>
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