[Tux3] Deferred namespace operations, Defer rename

Daniel Phillips phillips at phunq.net
Mon Dec 15 10:35:56 PST 2008


On Monday 15 December 2008 03:26, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> > answer if some unlinks have been deferred.  For some strange reason,
> > directory link count only includes subdirectories, not regular files or
> > other kinds of entries, so that cannot be relied on.  I am not sure
> 
> That's because it's counting the '..' links in the subdirectories.

Duh, thanks  And does anything actually rely on this count being equal
to the number of subdirectories as opposed to being > greater than two
for a non-empty directory?

It would be a lot more useful to Tux3 as a directory in-use counter
than as a subdirectory counter.

Regards,

Daniel

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