If I rename foo over bar, while holding bar open, then /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd> still shows me bar's old path: $ touch foo bar $ tail -f bar & [1] 23492 $ mv foo bar $ readlink /proc/23492/fd/3 /home/bfields/bar (deleted) The rename does a d_move(dentry, target) where I assume dentry is for "foo" and target for "bar", with target the same dentry that the file descriptor holds a reference on. But d_move() does switch_names(dentry, target); giving target name "foo". So how does readlink still get "bar"? I've clearly missed something obvious.... --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
