On Thu, 02 Aug 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> > There is only one chain of directories from the fd's dentry up to the
> > root, that's the one to sync.
>
> You forgot ".. at any given moment". IOW, operation you propose is inherently
> racy. You want to do that - you do that in userland.
Applications usually protect their playgrounds - separate uid for
instance. If only the application has access to that area, and itself
does not trigger races, "at any given moment" is not a restriction.
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