From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 6 11:38:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from brutus.conectiva.com.br (brutus.conectiva.com.br [200.250.58.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D2DE37B491 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:38:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (riel@localhost) by brutus.conectiva.com.br (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f16JaV328283; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:36:31 -0200 X-Authentication-Warning: duckman.distro.conectiva: riel owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:36:31 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel X-Sender: riel@duckman.distro.conectiva To: Andre Oppermann Cc: Matt Dillon , Mike Silbersack , Poul-Henning Kamp , Charles Randall , Dan Phoenix , Alfred Perlstein , Jos Backus , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) In-Reply-To: <3A805137.230E0A0D@monzoon.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 20:32:07 +0100 > From: Andre Oppermann > 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