Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jun 2003 18:40:43 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] nfs_unlink() race (was: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch) | From | Trond Myklebust <> |
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>>>>> " " == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> I think your #1 is "obviously correct", but the fact that it > breaks rmdir sounds like a bummer. However, since it only > breaks rmdir when silly-renames exist - and since silly-renames > should only happen when you have a file descriptor still open - > I'd be inclined to say that this is the right behaviour.
I agree.
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...
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