On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
> but it's about as lovely as abusing union to transform double into
> int[2] and back. In case of namei() it is _not_ needed -
> lookup_dentry() does the job just fine.
>
> I know that, I was attempting to let him the reason why it was failing
> which is entirely different from telling him what he should be doing.
> You told him the latter, but I find it quite as useful for him to know
> precisely why it failed in the first place.
I know that you know, but to take it one step further: knowing that
set_fs() is a brute-force tool which shouldn't be used lightly is useful
too ;-)
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