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Message-Id: <E1IZoAb-0003xu-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:40:17 +0200
From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To: alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
CC: miklos@...redi.hu, 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.
I don't think it can. How can we find in a reliable way another
directory, which is writable by the user?
Miklos
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