> Seems like there went some patches into 2.5 to fix some nfs
> unlink races
> (http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.681.1.1?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-1d)
> Does this race apply to 2.4 as well? And might that explain why
A race exists, but it won't explain your problem. The nature of the
race is rather that it will cause a program to crash with ESTALE
errors if it tries to open the file at the exact same time as somebody
else is trying to erase it.
Cheers,
Trond
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