On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Brian Molnar wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > This sounds very strange - different processes (or even the same > > process using different file handles) will see different results > > for fstat() which are yet different from stat(). I can't imagine > > that applications would like this at all. > > Ya, no doubt a good deal of applications would get very confused if > they didn't know the difference. And it is not the goal of this FS to > support the use of general applications. Actually, well written applications shouldn't assume that fd=open(path);fstat(fd) is equivalent to fd=open(path);stat(path). Why? Because the second one is racy wrt. remove and rename. Thanks, Miklos -- 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
