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    link_path_walk: nd->depth massage, part 1 · 071bf501
    Al Viro authored
    nd->stack[0] is unused until the handling of trailing symlinks and
    we want to get rid of that.  Having fucked that transformation up
    several times, I went for bloody pedantic series of provably equivalent
    transformations.  Sorry.
    
    Step 1: keep nd->depth higher by one in link_path_walk() - increment upon
    entry, decrement on exits, adjust the arithmetics inside and surround the
    calls of functions that care about nd->depth value (nd_alloc_stack(),
    get_link(), put_link()) with decrement/increment pairs.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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