Re: [PATCH] Do _not_ call unlink on a directory

From: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Date: Jul 16, 2007, 19:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20070716195600.GC16878@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <469BC17D.60806@slamb.org>

Hello,

> If arbitrary other tasks are running, the only way to be absolutely
> certain you're not calling unlink() in a directory is to never call
> unlink().

there is one way to do it safe but it is so ugly that it is unacceptable: don't call unlink as a privileged user (eg. root). So I hope that one of the patches make it into git soon. I like the second patch better because it does less system calls. Not that it matters. For my co-workers I already build a git version with the patch in so that they can continue to work as root. Don't even think about asking.

        Thomas