From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:18:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:18:40 -0500 Received: from c-025.static.AT.KPNQwest.net ([193.154.188.25]:33779 "EHLO stefan.sime.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:18:27 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:17:21 +0100 From: Stefan Traby To: Alan Cox Cc: Alexander Viro , Stefan Traby , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state) Message-ID: <20010108141721.C13072@stefan.sime.com> Reply-To: Stefan Traby In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:26:17PM +0000 Organization: Stefan Traby Services && Consulting X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-fijiji0 (i686) X-APM: 100% 400 min Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:26:17PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > I can put all that in the VFS so I did (right now the ext2 size calculator is > wrong but thats proof of concept detail). Just need to shift if over from > ext2/file.c Try 'getconf LINK_MAX /ramfs'. While the result (127) is in some way SuS/POSIXLY_CORRECT, it's not the truth. Why not start to fix this problem outside the funny switch/case in glibc ? The filesystem itself should able to handle this. -- ciao - Stefan " ( cd /lib ; ln -s libBrokenLocale-2.2.so libNiedersachsen.so ) " Stefan Traby Linux/ia32 fax: +43-3133-6107-9 Mitterlasznitzstr. 13 Linux/alpha phone: +43-3133-6107-2 8302 Nestelbach Linux/sparc http://www.hello-penguin.com Austria mailto://st.traby@opengroup.org Europe mailto://stefan@hello-penguin.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/