On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:16:00PM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:45:08PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > ->release is the proper way to detect the last close of a file,
> > file_count should never be used in filesystems.
> 
> Has been tried, the problem with that once ->release is called it is too
> late to pass the the error back to close(2).

I think you'll find the problem is that fput() throws away the error
from ->release, not that it's too late....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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