Re: patch for fs/dcache race

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Mon, 18 Aug 1997 14:13:52 -0400

Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de said:
> Linus wrote:
> >HOWEVER, in the end I decided that this doesn't make any difference. The
> >"(deleted)" at the end is more human-readable, and as the name is really
> >only for readability anyway.

> What about putting a null byte between the real name and the "(deleted)"?
> This does not mess up terminals, is unique (since there must'n be a '\0'
> in a file name), and very easy to parse from C.

But might break standard tools, e.g., find(1).

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