Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jun 2003 02:01:26 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] nfs_unlink() race (was: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch) | From | Trond Myklebust <> |
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>>>>> " " == Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:40:43PM +0200, Trond Myklebust > wrote: >> If people prefer 'rm -rf' correctness instead of >> unlinked-but-open, then we could do that by changing the >> behaviour of 'unlink' on a silly-deleted filed. Currently it >> returns EBUSY, but we could just as well have it complete the >> unlink, and mark the inode as being stale...
> Actually, *currently* it unlinks. :-) That's the problem.
No. The problem is that it aliases the dentry, and so it unlinks incorrectly...
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