On Friday 03 August 2001 20:08, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Are you saying that there may not be a ".." some of the time? Or just
> > that it may spontaneously be relinked? If it does spontaneously change
> > it doesn't matter, you have still made sure there is access by at least
> > one path.
> >
> > The trouble with doing this in userland is, the locked chain of dcache
> > entries isn't there.
>
> There is no _locked_ chain.
Locked as in can't be destroyed (refcount) not i_sem or such, sorry for the
loose usage.
> And if you want to grab the locks on all
> ancestors - think again. It means sorting the inodes by address _and_
> relocking if any of them had been moved while you were locking the
> previous ones. I absolutely refuse to add such crap to the tree and I
> seriously suspect that Linus and Alan will do the same.
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