Kenneth Stailey writes:
> >it seems to be that the name undelete is ok.  would you
> >have both a file available for undeletion, and a whiteout
> >in existence at the same time?
> 
> You could have successive undelete(2) calls.  First one zaps the
> whiteout, the second restores the file.
> 

Huh?  undelete(2) would then actually perform "undelete" and "restore"?

Better to have set_file_state(2)...

--Toby.
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