I see three ways to solve this problem:
1. have a user daemon make a system call periodically.
2. have a user daemon send a signal periodically
3. have the kernel call a subroutine periodically.
To me 3. is the best solution, but I don't know how to set
an alarm in the kernel.
I'll keep looking.
Allen
>>>"G. Allen Morris III" said:
> Thierry Danis <danis@mail.dotcom.fr> has found an interesting
> bug in knfsd. If you delete a file on a client and then
> never access the sever again the deleted inode is not released
> and the diskspace is not freed. The script below demostrates the
> problem.
>
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G. Allen Morris III
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