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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Pushkar Jambhlekar <pushkar.iit@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FS: Fixing return type of unsigned_offsets
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 21:55:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1494478535.2028.9.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMvNc9AsahXxFsYo91VoW-YLLk9=BFE9j1BK-Bkm_ZQrvsS67w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2017-05-11 at 10:13 +0530, Pushkar Jambhlekar wrote:
> Should I change my implementation, i.e. remove '!!'?

That'd be up to Al.

At least one implementation using similar bit comparisons
in fs/*.c does not use !!

fs/locks.c:static bool lease_breaking(struct file_lock *fl)
fs/locks.c-{
fs/locks.c-     return fl->fl_flags & (FL_UNLOCK_PENDING | FL_DOWNGRADE_PENDING)
fs/locks.c-}

I didn't look very hard.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-11  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-11  4:27 Pushkar Jambhlekar
2017-05-11  4:39 ` Joe Perches
2017-05-11  4:43   ` Pushkar Jambhlekar
2017-05-11  4:55     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-05-11  5:04       ` Pushkar Jambhlekar
2017-05-11  6:07         ` Al Viro
2017-05-11 20:09           ` Luc Van Oostenryck

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