Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Dec 1998 20:02:13 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] for lost mail due to NFS cache/locking non-atomicity |
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On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > There's a pre-131-2 patch there on ftp.kernel.org in the testing > directory.
Oh, btw, I do know that "rmdir()" over NFS is currently broken as of pre-131-2 - no need to tell me. There are two places in "nfs_rmdir()" that do
if (dentry->d_count > 1) ...
and because the new code has to lock down the dentry to make sure the inode doesn't go away from underneath it, the "1" should be a "2" due to the magic extra reference count. That's the easy fix for pre-131-2, but I'm looking into making the whole issue go away if at all possible rather than just fixing up a magic constant.
Linus
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