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SubjectRe: Improving the Unix API


On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 allbery@ece.cmu.edu wrote:

> 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 file whose only reference is an open fd which has been revoked dealt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".)

When it's already remounted r/o?


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