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To: "Nils O. =?iso-8859-1?q?Sel=E5sdal?=" <noselasd@Utel.no>
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Subject: Re: NFS unlink race?
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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Date: 22 Jul 2002 10:46:19 +0200
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>>>>> " " == Nils O Sel?sdal <noselasd@Utel.no> writes:

     > Seems like there went some patches into 2.5 to fix some nfs
     > unlink races
     > (http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.681.1.1?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-1d)
     > Does this race apply to 2.4 as well? And might that explain why

A race exists, but it won't explain your problem. The nature of the
race is rather that it will cause a program to crash with ESTALE
errors if it tries to open the file at the exact same time as somebody
else is trying to erase it.

Cheers,
  Trond
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