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 09:39:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:39:37 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:1029 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:39:35 -0500 Subject: Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state) To: viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:40:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: stefan@hello-penguin.com (Stefan Traby), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Alexander Viro" at Jan 08, 2001 08:35:10 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Why not start to fix this problem outside the funny switch/case in glibc ? > > The filesystem itself should able to handle this. > > Sigh... And the API would be? In SuS its pathconf() - 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/