Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:16:47PM +0300, Mika Penttilä wrote:
> Just out of curiosity - what protects even local filesystems against 
> concurrent truncate and symlink resolving when using the page cache helpers?

How do you get truncate(2) or ftruncate(2) to do something with a symlink?
The former follows links, the latter takes an open file...
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/