On 27 Jun, Jason Thorpe wrote:
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|   Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
|   > doesn't unmap the stuff. Oh, shit, there is such thing as pending
|   > unlink... Does vgone() force it?
|  
|  Regarding unlink()... those aren't operations on vnodes.  Those are
|  operations on the filesystem namespace, and are thus (correctly)
|  unaffected.
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I believe what he meant is "how is deallocation of a pending-unlink
file whose only reference is an open fd which has been revoked dealt
with"?

(To which my own answer would be:  "deallocated on close as usual, no
reason to treat this case specially that I know of".)

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