Messiness in removing directories
Messiness in removing directories
Posted Jun 17, 2018 4:52 UTC (Sun) by viro (subscriber, #7872)In reply to: Messiness in removing directories by ebiederm
Parent article: Messiness in removing directories
Close, but not quite. We do need something close to d_invalidate(), except that it ought to be combined with recursive removal. There's quite a few places that open-code what's essentially rm -rf. And it has to be done in the code that initiates the removal - there's no way in hell for generic syscalls to guess what would get such treatment.