Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:12:09 -0400 (EDT) | From | allbery@ece ... | Subject | Re: Improving the Unix API |
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On 27 Jun, Jason Thorpe wrote: +----- | Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote: | > doesn't unmap the stuff. Oh, shit, there is such thing as pending | > unlink... Does vgone() force it? | | Regarding unlink()... those aren't operations on vnodes. Those are | operations on the filesystem namespace, and are thus (correctly) | unaffected. +--->8
I believe what he meant is "how is deallocation of a pending-unlink file whose only reference is an open fd which has been revoked dealt with"?
(To which my own answer would be: "deallocated on close as usual, no reason to treat this case specially that I know of".)
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