Rhialto <rhia...@falu.nl> wrote: > > Yes, a TTL attribute on an inode: once it expires, the filesystem tosses > > the file on next access attempt. > > If it were done at the next directory listing attempt, it would make > more sense (and the removed file should not be reported as present of > course). In the mean time, a program which may have created the file and > remembered its name, may still access it past the expiration date if it > is lucky (i.e., nobody looked - a quantum file system where observation > changes the files).
Well, I meant on the next lookup, actually, but readdir should also kill it. This is probably too complicated. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz m...@netbsd.org