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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: rm hangs on symlinks to down mount points
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:09:23 -0800
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To: Paul Raines <raines@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
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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