Richard Sharpe wrote: > 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?
The directory vnode is locked over the create operation. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
