Hi,

In looking at vn_open, I see that it calls namei and then a little while 
later calls VOP_CREATE.

If the user did open(..., ... O_CREAT | O_EXCL, ...), what prevents a race 
where one process discovers that the name doesn't already exist but 
another gets in and creates the name?

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com


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