On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 14:06 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > That said, I don't think a careful client implementation > > should ever get NFS4ERR_SYMLINK if it stats the directory it operates > > on before sending the link op (or lookup, create, rename, etc.) to make > > sure it is indeed a directory, right?. > > That sounds racy. The LINK op identifies the target directory by its filehandle, so I can't see that there can be any race: the server isn't supposed to be able to morph a directory into a symlink without changing its filehandle. Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
