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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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        Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: Race-free unlinking of directory entries
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 09:42:41AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Hi! I would like to remind this my older email about race free
> unlinking. Is there any plan to provide such support?

Given that in Linux we know which directory entry a given fd refers to,
we shouldn't even need a new syscall, but simply support the
AT_EMPTY_PATH flag for funlinkat.