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Message-ID: <20070924144229.03c4aec2@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:42:29 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	hch@...radead.org, miklos@...redi.hu, trond.myklebust@....uio.no,
	adilger@...sterfs.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] VFS: new fgetattr() file operation

> But it's has various dawbacks, like rmdir doesn't work if there are
> open files within an otherwise empty directory.
> 
> I'd happily accept suggestions on how to deal with this differenty.

NFS has that problem because it really has to sillyrename into the same
directory. I don't see that ssh/sftp needs to do that. Instead it can
sillyrename anywhere in the filesystem.

Alan
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