linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] return ENOENT from ext3

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Message-ID: <m33b6avd4w.fsf@bzzz.home.net>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:07:59 +0300
From:	Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>
To:	Peter Staubach <staubach@...hat.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,
	alex@...sterfs.com, Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] return ENOENT from ext3_link when racing with unlink

>>>>> 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()

thanks, Alex
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