On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:16:47PM +0300, Mika Penttilä wrote: > Just out of curiosity - what protects even local filesystems against > concurrent truncate and symlink resolving when using the page cache helpers? How do you get truncate(2) or ftruncate(2) to do something with a symlink? The former follows links, the latter takes an open file... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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