On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:16:00PM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:45:08PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > ->release is the proper way to detect the last close of a file, > > file_count should never be used in filesystems. > > Has been tried, the problem with that once ->release is called it is too > late to pass the the error back to close(2). I think you'll find the problem is that fput() throws away the error from ->release, not that it's too late.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - 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
