From: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlink
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:15:44 -0500
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Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Peter Staubach (PS) writes:
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>
>
>  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