-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:22:47AM +0200, Pawel wrote: > Scenario B. "home" and "paul" dentries have been given back to dentry > cache, /home/paul/p.txt is still opened and another process opens it. > lookup_dentry recreates "home" and "kwap" dentries and puts them to > dentry cache. It also creates another instance of "p.txt" dentry > because it has no way to get the previous copy: every dentry is > identified by parent dentry address and its name. Name did not change, > but the parent dentry address changed. We have to instances of > "p.txt", both of them are in dentry hash map, but only one of them has > valid parent. It looks tricky for me, but maybe acceptable. Parent isn't very useful. Think about a hardlinked file: what is its parent? Erik (my 2.2 knowledge is very stale) - -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGJf4u/PlVHJtIto0RAhZJAJ93cYPWPA4MJqHaJaENpWkL9yqZ2gCeOzv5 2i4d5NX2fwIFrJqx6pvBIwU= =V5RI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
