Re: [fuse-devel] rename race condition

[Joshua J. B. <con...@co...>]

> The locking is pretty simplistic, which may not appeal to everyone
> (myself included), but it's very hard to get it right, deadlock free
> and not overly complex.  Ideas are welcome, of course.

A while back I was poking around in the Linux dcache, trying to figure out =
how
it works.  I never succeeded at that, but I ran across some documentation
explaining how it handles locking which I found useful.

See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking, hopefully t=
hat
will give you some ideas. :)

-- Josh

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Joshua J. Berry

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