Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Dec 1999 01:48:01 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Can't hardlink in different dirs. (BUG#826) |
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On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:
>Don't bring the policy question into the kernel. If you want to kill the >contents of inode - unlink() is _not_ a way to go. truncate() is.
What have unlink() or truncate() to do with this issue? The only system call we are talking about is _link_(2).
Even supposing you can undo after 1 pico second the effect of the link(2), for one pico second the system stayed in a state I don't like.
Andrea
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