nal VFS code which uses the lookup flags is something that the VFS would like to eliminate but I have no choice as I can't see any other way to do this. A VFS dentry or inode operation callback which returns the lookup "type" (requires a definition) would be sufficient. But this change is needed now and I'm not aware of the form that coming VFS changes will take so I'm not willing to propose anything along these lines. If anyone can provide an alternate method I would be happy to use it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build for concurrent VFS changes] Signed-off-by: Ian Kent Cc: Al Viro Cc: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds รก)