Re: [RFC] st_nlink after rmdir() and rename()

[Theodore Tso]

On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Al Viro wrote:

> We have an interesting problem.  Consider the following sequence
> of syscalls:
> 	mkdir("foo", 0777);
> 	mkdir("bar", 0777);
> 	fd1 = open("foo", O_DIRECTORY);
> 	fd2 = open("bar", O_DIRECTORY);
> 	rename("foo", "bar");	/* kill old bar */

I must be missing something.  I didn't think you could rename on
top of a directory and have the directory disappear.  Don't you get
an error in that case?  What happens if bar contains files?

We don't allow:  mkdir("bar", 0777); unlink("bar");

Why should this be any different?

-- Ted

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