Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 3 Mar 2011 14:37:36 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC] st_nlink after rmdir() and rename() |
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On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:26 PM, OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> wrote: > > I don't know much about NFS though, I imaged the NFS just fill the > stat.st_nlink to return to userland by 0 if sillyrenamed dentry? (of > course, I'm not saying let's emulate "i_nlink >= 1" on all > filesystems. just about i_nlink == 0) I was thinking Al is working for > it...
So even if we did that, WHAT WOULD BE THE UPSIDE?
Code that cares wouldn't run on any other Unix, or on any older version of Linux.
And I claim that there is not a single reason to do it anyway. That whole "code that cares" is totally theoretical. Such code simply doesn't exist.
If you just opened a directory, and then did a "rmdir()" on that directory, then you're just a f*cking moron if you go around saying "ok, let me now do an fstat() on that fd to see if it really got deleted or not". That's just _stupid_.
Really. There is absolutely no point in introducing a new rule that nobody cares about, that we haven't followed ourselves historically, and that would require us to play insane hacky games.
WHY DO IT? WHY CARE? WHY, WHY, WHY?
Linus
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