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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Kernel Compile in tmpfs crumples in 2.4.12 w/epoll patch 
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:12:12 -0700, 
Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:
>The basic idea being that we first of all narrow the race window and
>second of all detect the race in all cases where the mods to the dir
>result in either a changed mtime or a changed size.

Aren't there some file systems where the directory size is always 0?  I
vaguely remember a change to make mrproper to work round that "feature".

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