cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_syscalls.c

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 20 February 2007 09:49, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:39:58PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Monday 19 February 2007 05:56, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > > kib         2007-02-19 10:56:10 UTC
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/kern             vfs_syscalls.c 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Remove union_dircheckp hook, it is not needed by new unionfs code anymore.
> > >   As consequence, getdirentries() no longer needs to drop/reacquire
> > >   directory vnode lock, that would allow it to be reclaimed in between.
> > 
> > I think there is at least one more copy of getdirentries() under sys/compat,
> > possibly multiple.  Are you going to fix this in all of them?
> 
> Could you, please, point out where is it ? My grep told me that I removed
> all references to the union_dircheckp, and I think that getdirentries() code
> had to have references to it. My change modified two syscalls: getdirentries()
> and ogetdirentries().

Well, I did find at least 3 ABIs (Linux, svr4, and ibcs2) that do their own
wrapper around VOP_READDIR(), but none of them had the union check in them.
Do you know why the ABIs use cookies for VOP_READDIR() but getdirentries()
doesn't?

-- 
John Baldwin