Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:30:01 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] stop inotify from sending random DELETE_SELF event under load |
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On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Al Viro wrote: > > Uhh... I still don't understand which behaviour do you want. > > * removal of this link, postponed to indefinite future (until we > do not have any users of that dentry) [ new behaviour ] > * moment when the last link is gone _and_ nobody uses any dentries > pointing to object, with information taken from the last one still in use > [ old behaviour ]
Old behaviour (well, "old" is relative) is apparently the expected one.
But the old behaviour had a bug: we _also_ call dentry_iput() for non-deletes.
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