On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 07:22:26PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Ian Jackson
> <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> > Olaf van der Spek writes ("Re: Source code"):
> >> Renaming open files works, so that should no longer be a problem.
> >
> > They have to be able to be deleted.
>
> Why?
Because lots of programs expect something like
fd = open("/tmp/foo", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL);
unlink("/tmp/foo");
write(fd, "data", 4);
to succeed. This is how Unix filesystem semantics work and pretty much
always have. POSIX allows unlink(2) to return EBUSY, but that's not at
all Unixy. The only case I can see for EBUSY is what NetBSD and OpenBSD
do: restrict unlinking a mount point. (This is also the only case for
EBUSY on Solaris, Ultrix, and HP-UX.)
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