From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"linux-man@vger.kernel.org" <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Subject: Re: For review: open_by_name_at(2) man page
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 06:07:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140318130708.GA13031@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53283D7A.1020409@gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 01:35:06PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Indeed! I don't know quite what I was smoking as I reviewed that piece.
> In fact, I started writing this page a long time ago, but then other
> events intervened, and it was a long time before I came back to it recently.
> Certainly, when I produced that shell session log, things proceeded
> (almost) as shown. I'm guessing that what happened is that I by
> accident edited out a line
>
> rm cecilia.txt
>
> just before
>
> echo 'Warum?' > cecilia.txt
>
> Fixed now. (In that case of course, it is of course a matter of chance
> whether the pathname is re-created with the same i-node number, but if
> you are quick, it often is. I'll add some explanation to the page.)
That's why the file handles contain a generation counter that gets
incremented in this case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-18 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-17 15:57 For review: open_by_name_at(2) man page Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-03-17 22:00 ` NeilBrown
2014-03-18 9:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-03-18 12:37 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <53283DFB.6040105-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-18 22:24 ` NeilBrown
2014-03-19 9:09 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <20140318090007.3adee3d0-wvvUuzkyo1EYVZTmpyfIwg@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-18 12:35 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-03-18 13:07 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-03-18 13:30 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-03-18 9:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-03-18 12:41 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-03-18 12:55 ` For review: open_by_name_at(2) man page [v2] Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <53284233.3050800-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-19 4:13 ` NeilBrown
[not found] ` <20140319151349.33a76023-wvvUuzkyo1EYVZTmpyfIwg@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-19 9:09 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <53295ED0.7070304-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-19 14:14 ` For review: open_by_handle_at(2) man page [v3] Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-03-19 6:42 ` For review: open_by_name_at(2) man page [v2] Mike Frysinger
2014-03-19 13:11 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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