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From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coda: kill file_count abuse
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:16:00 -0400
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:45:08PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> ->release is the proper way to detect the last close of a file,
> file_count should never be used in filesystems.

Has been tried, the problem with that once ->release is called it is too
late to pass the the error back to close(2).

Jan