Re: [patch 1/2] VFS: new fgetattr() file operation

[Miklos Szeredi]

> > But it's has various dawbacks, like rmdir doesn't work if there are
> > open files within an otherwise empty directory.
> > 
> > I'd happily accept suggestions on how to deal with this differenty.
> 
> NFS has that problem because it really has to sillyrename into the same
> directory. I don't see that ssh/sftp needs to do that. Instead it can
> sillyrename anywhere in the filesystem.

I don't think it can.  How can we find in a reliable way another
directory, which is writable by the user?

Miklos
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