From: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:56:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do _not_ call unlink on a directory
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