Re: [PATCH -V16 07/12] vfs: Support null pathname in linkat

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote:
> /*
>  * Return -ENOENT if we've raced with unlink and i_nlink is 0.  Doing
>  * otherwise has the potential to corrupt the orphan inode list.
>  */
> if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
> 	return -ENOENT;
> 
> I can move this check to VFS so that we do it for all file systems. 

That makes sense.  Hopefully filesystems which implement hard links
will change i_nlink to zero for the last unlink...

Thanks,
Miklos
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