(Illustration by Gaich Muramatsu)
Why can't we just refrain from doing the stat at mount time, and do it on demand when it is actually needed, with a variable to record whether the stat info is valid (or time of last stat, if we want to avoid calling more than once a second and get fancier). I can't explain why, but it strikes me that having to fork for the mount call is at least somewhat bletcherous. Other processes blocking on calls to venus is one thing, but venus shouldn't be in that boat in the first place. Greg Troxel <gdt_at_ir.bbn.com>Received on 2003-01-03 10:06:06