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From: "david presotto" <presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] lnfs
Date: Wed,  2 Oct 2002 09:15:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <008801c26a15$c3e1d550$db28ff87@bl.belllabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9acf0838ced8becdebed4425da4af41f@plan9.bell-labs.com>

It should, that was what I was implying.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: [9fans] lnfs


> > > However, in rreaddir, I don't reread the file while
> > > translating the short names to long ones.  Someone
> > > could create a file while I'm busy converting the
> > > dir.  There's plenty of window there for someone to
> > > sneak through.
> >
> > I think this is the problem. I had a process running on the
> > cpu server which walked the tree finding things to do, and
> > another process on my terminal which added things to the
> > tree. Perhaps I won't use lnfs after all...
>
> Just put a readnames() call right after the dirreadall() call.
> The race goes away, no?
>
> Russ
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-02 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-02  5:08 Russ Cox
2002-10-02 13:15 ` david presotto [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-02  7:05 Geoff Collyer
2002-10-02  4:29 nigel
2002-10-02 13:22 ` david presotto
2002-10-01 13:51 presotto
2002-10-01  8:18 nigel

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