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Date:      Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:31:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To:        allbery@ece.cmu.edu
Cc:        thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA, fare@tunes.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-kern@netbsd.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject:   Re: Improving the Unix API 
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906272130340.24019-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199906280112.VAA25177@ece.cmu.edu>

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On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 allbery@ece.cmu.edu wrote:

> On 27 Jun, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> +-----
> |   Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
> |   > doesn't unmap the stuff. Oh, shit, there is such thing as pending
> |   > unlink... Does vgone() force it?
> |  
> |  Regarding unlink()... those aren't operations on vnodes.  Those are
> |  operations on the filesystem namespace, and are thus (correctly)
> |  unaffected.
> +--->8
> 
> I believe what he meant is "how is deallocation of a pending-unlink
> file whose only reference is an open fd which has been revoked dealt
> with"?
> 
> (To which my own answer would be:  "deallocated on close as usual, no
> reason to treat this case specially that I know of".)

When it's already remounted r/o?



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