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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] lnfs
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Wed,  2 Oct 2002 01:08:03 -0400
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> > 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