Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:36:31 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@monzoon.net> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>, Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102061735300.1535-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <3A805137.230E0A0D@monzoon.net>
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 20:32:07 +0100 > From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@monzoon.net> > NAME > link - make a hard file link > DESCRIPTION > The link() function call atomically creates the specified directory > entry > ^^^^^^^^^^ > (hard link) name2 with the attributes of the underlying object > pointed at > by name1. If the link is successful: the link count of the > underlying ob- > ject is incremented; name1 and name2 share equal access and rights > to the > underlying object. IE. link() atomically creates the directory entry and increments the usage count of the inode. I don't see anything about writing the thing to disk ... regards, Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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