From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: elementary d_move question
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:46:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131023154654.GC30796@fieldses.org> (raw)
If I rename foo over bar, while holding bar open, then
/proc/<pid>/fd/<fd> still shows me bar's old path:
$ touch foo bar
$ tail -f bar &
[1] 23492
$ mv foo bar
$ readlink /proc/23492/fd/3
/home/bfields/bar (deleted)
The rename does a d_move(dentry, target) where I assume dentry is for
"foo" and target for "bar", with target the same dentry that the file
descriptor holds a reference on.
But d_move() does
switch_names(dentry, target);
giving target name "foo". So how does readlink still get "bar"?
I've clearly missed something obvious....
--b.
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2013-10-23 15:46 J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2013-10-29 16:28 ` elementary d_move question Jan Kara
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2013-10-23 17:27 J. Bruce Fields
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