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From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: File trees: the deeper, the weirder
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On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:22:27PM +0000, David Malone wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 05:07:16PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> > Weird, eh?  Any ideas what's going on?
> 
> I would guess that you need a new vnode to create the new file, but no
> vnodes are obvious candidates for freeing because they all have a child
> directory in use. Is there some sort of vnode clearing that goes on every
> second if we are short of vnodes?

It seems to me that in Unix, when a process chdir's to a directory,
the parent directory of the latter (and the whole chain of them up
to the root dir) isn't kept busy.  Is this untrue?

-- 
Yar