From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Paul Raines <raines@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rm hangs on symlinks to down mount points
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:09:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FF205A3.7000609@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312301639450.24097-100000@gate.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Paul Raines wrote:
>
> If you try to delete linkfile, it hangs forever. Seems to never timeout
> or work. Doing a strace shows it hanging to a system stat() call
> on the pointed to file.
>
> First, it seems fundamentally wrong that doing an unlink() on a symlink
> causes a stat() call on the pointed to file. Seems a huge waste.
>
It doesn't; however rm(1) apparently does.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-30 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-30 21:47 rm hangs on symlinks to down mount points Paul Raines
2003-12-30 23:09 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-12-30 23:19 ` Paul Raines
2003-12-30 23:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-30 23:37 ` Paul Raines
2003-12-30 23:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-31 1:37 ` Jim Carter
2003-12-31 3:17 ` Paul Raines
2003-12-30 18:38 ` Ian Kent
2003-12-31 14:25 ` Paul Raines
2003-12-31 14:54 ` Ian Kent
2003-12-31 15:27 ` Paul Raines
2003-12-30 19:59 ` Ian Kent
2003-12-31 10:58 ` Christian Vogel
2003-12-31 14:32 ` Paul Raines
2004-01-06 16:23 ` Paul Raines
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