On 10/20/11 17:06, Eric Blake wrote: >> So far, I've seen only Cygwin mentioned. >> Where does it happen in a typical GNUish environment? > > Try the same exercise using NFSv2 or NFSv3 mounts
I don't see why NFSv3 or v3 would be different. I just tried your test case with an NFSv3 mount (RHEL 5.7 client, NetApp server) and it did not exhibit the problem. > I suspect that it would be possible to find a testcase under Linux Possibly, but I'd like to see it before worrying about this. > at least on any setup where you would also see a failure in unlink()ing a > regular file with open fds Yes, if regular files don't conform to POSIX, then maybe directories don't either. But we generally don't have workarounds for those regular-file issues in gnulib, and we shouldn't really: the glitches are relatively rare in practice and people who are used to NFS know about the glitches and deal with them manually as they come up. Surely directories should be treated similarly.
