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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>2018-12-10 01:58:37 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2018-12-20 18:47:18 +0300
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-Pathname lookup in Linux
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-This write-up is based on three articles published at lwn.net:
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-- <https://lwn.net/Articles/649115/> Pathname lookup in Linux
-- <https://lwn.net/Articles/649729/> RCU-walk: faster pathname lookup in Linux
-- <https://lwn.net/Articles/650786/> A walk among the symlinks
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-Written by Neil Brown with help from Al Viro and Jon Corbet.
-It has subsequently been updated to reflect changes in the kernel
-including:
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-- per-directory parallel name lookup.
Introduction to pathname lookup
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