Hello, > If arbitrary other tasks are running, the only way to be absolutely > certain you're not calling unlink() in a directory is to never call > unlink(). there is one way to do it safe but it is so ugly that it is unacceptable: don't call unlink as a privileged user (eg. root). So I hope that one of the patches make it into git soon. I like the second patch better because it does less system calls. Not that it matters. For my co-workers I already build a git version with the patch in so that they can continue to work as root. Don't even think about asking. Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html