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

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:35:10 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Stefan Traby wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:26:17PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > I can put all that in the VFS so I did (right now the ext2 size calculator is
> > wrong but thats proof of concept detail). Just need to shift if over from
> > ext2/file.c
>
> 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?

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