On Thursday August 24, [email protected] wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 16:12 +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> >
> > I had flags the fh_lock in nfsd_setattr a I_MUTEX_CHILD which you
> > didn't however I see that isn't needed (Why do we have PARENT and
> > CHILD and NORMAL.... you would think that any two would do ??)
>
> for cross directory renames 3 are needed ;(
I see....
If one of the source/dest directories is an ancestor to the other
it gets _PARENT while the descendent gets _CHILD,
otherwise the destination gets _PARENT and the source gets _CHILD.
I guess the terms 'PARENT' and 'CHILD' refer more to the relationship
of the locks than the relationship of the directories.
(If the destination name exists, it gets locked with _NORMAL)
I still find the terminology a bit confusing.
_GRANDPARENT -> _PARENT -> _NORMAL
would make more sense to me, but maybe it isn't that important.
Thanks for the explanation.
NeilBrown
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