From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 27 18:16:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.236.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1418C15283 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:16:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from ece.cmu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ece.cmu.edu (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25177; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:12:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906280112.VAA25177@ece.cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:12:09 -0400 (EDT) From: allbery@ece.cmu.edu Reply-To: allbery@ece.cmu.edu Subject: Re: Improving the Unix API 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 In-Reply-To: <199906280051.RAA07365@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27 Jun, Jason Thorpe wrote: +----- | Alexander Viro 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I believe what he meant is "how is deallocation of a pending-unlink file whose only reference is an open fd which has been revoked dealt with"?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".) -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message