Re: heads up: rename fixed

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:52:33AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
 > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:49:32PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 09:37:33AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
 > >  > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 08:00:18AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Other fses with their own rename implementations whose locking is
 > >  > > clearly wrong include tmpfs, msdosfs, udf, and nilfs.
 > >  >                         ^^^^^ this one seems urgent, no?
 > > 
 > > As opposed to ffs? What's your point?
 > 
 > Nothing except that some of these issues are more severe in practice
 > than others.  Very few people are using LFS, very many using tmpfs.

You do realize that lfs uses the same ufs_rename that ffs does?
(mostly) so that fixing one fixes (mostly) the other?

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David A. Holland
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