Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state)

[Stefan Traby]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:35:10AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Stefan Traby wrote:
> > Try 'getconf LINK_MAX /ramfs'.
> > While the result (127) is in some way SuS/POSIXLY_CORRECT,
> > it's not the truth.
> > 
> > Why not start to fix this problem outside the funny switch/case in glibc ?
> > The filesystem itself should able to handle this.
> 
> Sigh... And the API would be?

Oh, IMHO that's not too important.
API should be accepted by you and Ulrich Drepper.
API should not be expected to return static values. (for example: reiserfs
may return different values dependend on filesystem-version)

I think the easiest way would be to define ioctls for this.
So VFS needs no changes; the only discussion would be about the
standard name for "request-names", and Ulrich could fall back to
his magic calculations if EINVAL is returned.

Because I have no knowledge on this I suggest that you and Ulrich fight
together on a more flexible solution than the current one. I guess
that Linus would accept this without thinking too much about it.

-- 

  ciao - 
    Stefan

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