Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As long as you don't rely on stat...mkdir working. That can go wrong if the > > dentry gets booted from the dcache by memory pressure in the "...". > > I'm not clear on your point here. I was wondering if you were going to rely on stat() forcing the dentry to be correctly initialised before you did mkdir(), but it seems not. > If I stat a path and it exists then all is good and I'm done. > If I stat a path and I get something other than ENOENT then all is bad > and I return fail. > Otherwise I can just attempt to create the directory and fail if all is > bad with that. Okay, I suppose. But that still doesn't seem to deal with the case of creating a directory on the client that then overlays a symlink on the server that you can't yet access. You may also get ENOENT because you stat a symlink, though you'll get EEXIST from mkdir, even if there's nothing at the far end. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
