Re: unlinkd ??

From: John Saunders <john@dont-contact.us>
Date: 4 Apr 1997 00:22:24 GMT

Arjan de Vet (Arjan.deVet@adv.IAEhv.nl) wrote:
> This stack approach also solves the possible race condition of a filename
> being passed to unlinkd but being in use again by a new object before the
> actual unlink() happens.

Provided that the unlink can happen before more than 128 names are reused.
It's a reasonable bet that this will always be the case, but it is not
garanteed. :-)

Still it's a good speedup to have.

Cheers.
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