Subject: Re: ufs-ism in lookup(9)
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/20/2004 12:16:55 
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:34:27AM +0100, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> You surely need to do lookup before deleting a file - you are
> supposed to return ENOENT if it doesn't exist.

While that's true for local file systems, the suggested optimizations
certainly sounds right for remote file systems to me.

Martin