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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:00:13 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] proc: Use d_invalidate in proc_prune_siblings_dcache

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 2:54 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> s/no inode.*/it's a directory inode./

That actually makes my worry go away too. We don't allow aliases for
directory inodes, iirc.

So then it doesn't depend on some /proc implementation issue any more,
then it's fundamental that there's only one dentry.

            Linus

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