Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758611AbXIXNh1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:37:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754746AbXIXNhN (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:37:13 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:41603 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754693AbXIXNhL (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:37:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:42:29 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: hch@infradead.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, adilger@clusterfs.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] VFS: new fgetattr() file operation Message-ID: <20070924144229.03c4aec2@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <20070924123640.GA17409@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 626 Lines: 15 > But it's has various dawbacks, like rmdir doesn't work if there are > open files within an otherwise empty directory. > > I'd happily accept suggestions on how to deal with this differenty. NFS has that problem because it really has to sillyrename into the same directory. I don't see that ssh/sftp needs to do that. Instead it can sillyrename anywhere in the filesystem. Alan - 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/