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Date:	Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:15:44 -0500
From:	Peter Staubach <staubach@...hat.com>
To:	Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>
CC:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, dmonakhov@...ru,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlink

Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Peter Staubach (PS) writes:
>>>>>>             
>
>
>  PS> Just out of curosity, what keeps i_nlink from going to 0 immediately
>  PS> after the new test is executed?
>
> i_mutex in vfs_link() and vfs_unlink()
>   

Ahhh...  Okie doke, thanx!

       ps

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