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From: "david presotto" <presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] lnfs
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Date: Wed,  2 Oct 2002 09:15:21 -0400
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It should, that was what I was implying.
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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
>
>