Re: [PATCH] return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlink

>>>>> Peter Staubach (PS) writes:


 PS> Just out of curosity, what keeps i_nlink from going to 0 immediately
 PS> after the new test is executed?

i_mutex in vfs_link() and vfs_unlink()

thanks, Alex
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