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To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Improved inode number allocation for HTree
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:14:38 +0100
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From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:40:14 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:

> Ok, so "rm" works.  Then you have things like "mv *.c /usr/src" to worry
> about.  Lock for traversal, get stuck unable to work on the files.

In both cases, the shell does the traversal and passes a complete list
of files to rm or mv... so rm and mv themselves don't need to do any
directory traversal.

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Ciao,
Pascal
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