On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:03:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > One possibility is to mark the dentry deleted in d_flags. That would mean > something like this (against the just-pushed-put v2.6.14-rc2, which has > my previous hack). > > Untested. Al? Uhh... I still don't understand which behaviour do you want. * removal of this link, postponed to indefinite future (until we do not have any users of that dentry) [ new behaviour ] * moment when the last link is gone _and_ nobody uses any dentries pointing to object, with information taken from the last one still in use [ old behaviour ] * actual destruction of file [ but we won't have any names to report ] * removal of this link, at the moment when it stops being accessible [ none of the above, better done from vfs_...() ] - 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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