Re: Kernel Compile in tmpfs crumples in 2.4.12 w/epoll patch

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:25:06 +1000

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:12:12 -0700,
Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:
>The basic idea being that we first of all narrow the race window and
>second of all detect the race in all cases where the mods to the dir
>result in either a changed mtime or a changed size.

Aren't there some file systems where the directory size is always 0? I
vaguely remember a change to make mrproper to work round that "feature".

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