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

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To: Alex Tomas <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlink
From: Peter Staubach <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:15:44 -0500
Cc: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>, linux-kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>, ext4 development <[email protected]>, [email protected], Al Viro <[email protected]>
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Alex Tomas wrote:

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()


Ahhh...  Okie doke, thanx!

      ps

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- Re: [PATCH] return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlink
  - From: Alex Tomas <[email protected]>

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