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To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
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Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> said:
> On Friday 03 August 2001 05:13, Alexander Viro wrote:

[...]

> > You forgot ".. at any given moment". IOW, operation you propose is
> > inherently racy. You want to do that - you do that in userland.

> Are you saying that there may not be a ".." some of the time?  Or just 
> that it may spontaneously be relinked?  If it does spontaneously change 
> it doesn't matter, you have still made sure there is access by at least 
> one path.

Think "mv thisdir somewhereelse"
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