From: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlink
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:07:59 +0300
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>>>>> 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()

thanks, Alex