linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.29

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Message-ID: <49D8100F.1060504@davidnewall.com>
Date:	Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:27:35 +0930
From:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	tytso@....edu, drees76@...il.com, jesper@...gh.cc,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29

Andrew Morton wrote:
> - open the file
>
> - unlink the file
>
> - now sit in a loop, slowly nibbling away at the tail with
>   ftruncate() until the file is gone.

Why not fork and unlink in the child?
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