From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 14:54:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je8yumo4by.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304071422580.12110-100000@serv> (Roman Zippel's message of "Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:31:11 +0200 (CEST)")
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> writes:
|> Hi,
|>
|> > That breaks one of the main uses, creating with open a temporary file
|> > in /tmp, unlinking it, then later hooking it up somewhere else in the
|> > filesystem.
|>
|> I wouldn't rely on this functionality, not all filesystems might like it
|> to have to recreate a deleted fs entry. Most filesystems should be able to
|> do this, but all fs drivers have to be checked, that they do the right
|> thing.
All filesystems already have to cope with unlinking of an open file
anyway, so relinking should not be a problem.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-07 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-07 2:56 Mark Grosberg
2003-04-07 3:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-07 7:29 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-04-07 8:18 ` Olivier Galibert
2003-04-07 8:35 ` Jakub Jelinek
2003-04-07 9:11 ` Olivier Galibert
2003-04-07 11:13 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-07 12:31 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-07 12:54 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2003-04-07 13:19 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-07 20:55 ` Fredrik Tolf
2003-04-07 21:43 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-04-07 22:17 ` Fredrik Tolf
2003-04-07 22:25 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-04-07 22:55 ` Fredrik Tolf
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-11 17:11 Clayton Weaver
2003-04-10 22:10 Clayton Weaver
2003-04-11 1:02 ` David Wagner
2003-04-10 0:31 Clayton Weaver
2003-04-08 13:06 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-07 23:57 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-07 16:50 Clayton Weaver
2003-04-07 17:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-07 17:37 ` David Wagner
2003-04-07 18:43 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-08 5:06 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-07 20:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-07 9:01 Clayton Weaver
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[not found] ` <200304070709.h37792815083@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu>
2003-04-07 7:35 ` Vitaly
2003-04-07 14:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-07 18:47 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-04-07 20:05 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2003-04-07 20:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-06 19:05 Dan Kegel
2003-04-06 19:07 ` Dan Kegel
2003-04-06 19:56 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-04-06 20:08 ` Malcolm Beattie
2003-04-06 20:33 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-04-06 21:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-07 2:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-07 2:29 ` David Wagner
2003-04-07 9:09 ` Malcolm Beattie
2003-04-07 11:02 ` Olivier Galibert
2003-04-07 5:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-07 6:43 ` David Wagner
2003-04-07 6:21 ` Vitaly
2003-04-07 16:17 ` Shaya Potter
2003-04-06 18:39 Ulrich Drepper
2003-04-07 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-07 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-08 0:23 ` Ulrich Drepper
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