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Re: shadowfs



On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:38:09PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 06:15:52PM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
> > Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@beer.com> writes:
> > > One solution is to block ~/1/foo/bar when ~/shadow/foo/bar
> > > is opened and return EBUSY on unlink(2)
> > 
> > I think you mean rmdir(2).  I don't like EBUSY here.  Unix lets
> > one unlink files which are being used; the same should work with
> > directories.
> 
> &downA; t {t &elikeletter; (0 AM,6 AM)} rmdir(2) == unlink(2)
> or some similar math ;-)
> 
> Linux rmdir(2) man says EBUSY should be returned if `char* pathname' is
> some process' rootdir or cwdir.
> Of course Linux ignores own manual, but I don't have POSIX here to know
> what is correct (is POSIX still top-secred ?, nobody made summaries online ?)

The Single Unix Specification seems to be a superset of POSIX whatever
version. 

It is available online (even as tar file!) at:
http://www.unix-systems.org/online.html

Thanks,
Marcus

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