Re: [PATCH 20/20] honor r/w changes at do_remount() time

["Joshua Hudson" <joshudson@gmail.com>]

On 7/3/06, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:30:14AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 06:19 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > >         * make the moments when i_nlink hits 0 bump the superblock writers
> > > count; drop it when such sucker gets freed on final iput.
> >
> > Could you elaborate on this one a bit?
> >
> > I assume that there are rules that once i_nlink hits 0, it never goes
> > back up again.  It seems that a whole bunch (if not all) of the
> > individual filesystems do things to it.  Is it really necessary to go
> > into all of those looking for the places that i_nlink hits 0?  Seems
> > like it would be an awful lot of patching.

That would be a poor assumption. Somebody could do ln /proc/pid/fd/3
/mnt/newname at this point.  In my personal filesystem, there is an
ioctl that does the equivalent of link(handle, "path"). Both of these
allow the link count to rise from zero.
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