Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:08:22 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Viren R.Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: repeatable crash in -current (softupdates, NFS) Message-ID: <199911292308.PAA12218@apollo.backplane.com> References: <14399.63511.296802.242618@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> <19991127191729.A53832@bitbox.follo.net> <14402.62122.461010.454021@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> <199911292152.NAA09656@apollo.backplane.com> <19991129235631.P60031@bitbox.follo.net>
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:> Eivind, I'm not sure that change you made is legal. People use
:> symlink creation the same way they use O_EXCL file creation - as a
:> locking mechanism. In fact, in NFSv2 O_EXCL file creation is not
:> atomic (I'm pretty sure) and symlink was the *only* method available.
:
:The sum of the changes I made does not (or is at least not supposed
:to) change the semantics of symlink creation. If you see some way the
:semantics are changed, please tell me - that's an error.
Ah, ok. Now I see what you've done. I'm still not sure that's right,
I'll have to go over it in more detail. I'll get back to you in private
email.
-Matt
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