From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: For review: open_by_name_at(2) man page Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 06:07:08 -0700 Message-ID: <20140318130708.GA13031@infradead.org> References: <53271B69.3000305@gmail.com> <20140318090007.3adee3d0@notabene.brown> <53283D7A.1020409@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: NeilBrown , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , "linux-man@vger.kernel.org" , Linux-Fsdevel , lkml , Andreas Dilger To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53283D7A.1020409@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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.