Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751433AbXAPWRU (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:17:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751489AbXAPWRU (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:17:20 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36920 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751433AbXAPWRT (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:17:19 -0500 Message-ID: <45AD4E90.2000203@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:15:44 -0500 From: Peter Staubach User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061215) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Tomas CC: Eric Sandeen , linux-kernel Mailing List , ext4 development , dmonakhov@sw.ru, Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH] return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlink References: <45ABC572.2070206@redhat.com> <45AD4B20.70507@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 524 Lines: 20 Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>> Peter Staubach (PS) writes: >>>>>> > > > PS> Just out of curosity, what keeps i_nlink from going to 0 immediately > PS> after the new test is executed? > > i_mutex in vfs_link() and vfs_unlink() > Ahhh... Okie doke, thanx! ps - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/