Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:12:09 -0400 (EDT) From: allbery@ece.cmu.edu To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Cc: viro@math.psu.edu, mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA, fare@tunes.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-kern@netbsd.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Improving the Unix API Message-ID: <199906280112.VAA25177@ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199906280051.RAA07365@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On 27 Jun, Jason Thorpe wrote:
+-----
| Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
| > doesn't unmap the stuff. Oh, shit, there is such thing as pending
| > unlink... Does vgone() force it?
|
| Regarding unlink()... those aren't operations on vnodes. Those are
| operations on the filesystem namespace, and are thus (correctly)
| unaffected.
+--->8
I believe what he meant is "how is deallocation of a pending-unlink
file whose only reference is an open fd which has been revoked dealt
with"?
(To which my own answer would be: "deallocated on close as usual, no
reason to treat this case specially that I know of".)
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