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authorFox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>2021-05-27 17:16:14 +0800
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2021-06-18 11:36:08 -0600
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docs: path-lookup: no get_link()
no get_link() anymore. we have step_into() and pick_link(). walk_component() will call step_into(), in turn call pick_link, and return symlink name. Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527091618.287093-10-foxhlchen@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -1103,12 +1103,10 @@ doesn't need to notice. Getting this ``name`` variable on and off the
stack is very straightforward; pushing and popping the references is
a little more complex.
-When a symlink is found, ``walk_component()`` returns the value ``1``
-(``0`` is returned for any other sort of success, and a negative number
-is, as usual, an error indicator). This causes ``get_link()`` to be
-called; it then gets the link from the filesystem. Providing that
-operation is successful, the old path ``name`` is placed on the stack,
-and the new value is used as the ``name`` for a while. When the end of
+When a symlink is found, ``walk_component()`` calls ``pick_link()`` via ``step_into()``
+which returns the link from the filesystem.
+Providing that operation is successful, the old path ``name`` is placed on the
+stack, and the new value is used as the ``name`` for a while. When the end of
the path is found (i.e. ``*name`` is ``'\0'``) the old ``name`` is restored
off the stack and path walking continues.