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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:52:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010109135226.B4284@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010108180857.A26776@athlon.random> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101081236440.4061-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <20010108212833.S27646@athlon.random>
In-Reply-To: <20010108212833.S27646@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:28:33PM +0100

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:28:33PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:58:20PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > It's a hell of a pain wrt locking. You need to lock the parent, but it can
> 
> This is a no-brainer and bad implementation, but shows it's obviously right
> wrt locking. (pseudocode, I ignored the uaccess details and all the other not
> relevant things)
> 
> 		err = sys_getcwd(buf, PAGE_SIZE)
> 		if (!memcmp(path, ".", 2))
> 			path = buf
> 		err = 2_4_0_sys_rmdir(path)

> Could you enlight me on where's the locking pain?

Do the above while another process is renaming one of your parents and
watch an innocent directory get shot down in flames, or prepare for an
incorrect ENOENT.

--Stephen
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-09 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-08 17:08 `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 17:31 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-01-08 17:55   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 18:04     ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 20:30       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 21:08         ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 21:56           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 23:28             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09  8:09               ` Stefan Traby
2001-01-09 10:48                 ` Eric Lammerts
2001-01-09  9:31           ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-09 15:00             ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-09 20:59               ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-09 21:42                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 23:27         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09  0:01           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 13:50             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-08 17:58 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 20:28   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 13:52     ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-01-08 21:54   ` Stefan Traby
2001-01-08 22:11     ` Benson Chow
2001-01-08 22:37       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09  1:37       ` Wakko Warner
2001-01-09  1:55         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09  4:56           ` Marc Lehmann
2001-01-11 18:57       ` Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
2001-01-09 13:39     ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-12 18:27   ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-08 20:56 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-08 21:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 22:25   ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-08 22:50 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-08 23:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 17:02 ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-01-09 12:18 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-09 13:41 Jesse Pollard
2001-01-09 14:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 14:47   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-10 15:03     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 17:28       ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-10 17:38         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 14:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-09 14:38 Jesse Pollard

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