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

Stefan Traby (stefan@hello-penguin.com)
Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:17:21 +0100


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.

-- 

ciao - Stefan

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