On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:20:35AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > Well, it's possible, but it seems pathological to me for a server to do > that... > > Bruce and I were discussing this the other day. It would be good to add > something like this to the RFCs: > > "On a PUTFH, a server SHOULD hold a reference to the filehandle such For "filehandle" I'd specify "current and saved filehandle". > that it does not go stale over the life of the compound." And that's *much* less of a burden on the server than requiring that the compound execute atomically. > ...or something along those lines. That's a different matter though and > not directly related to this. :) Yes. --b. -- 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