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Hendrik Jan Thomassen 3d5be2aa85 unlink.2: Improve EBUSY description 
The current version of the page says (under ERRORS):

> EBUSY (not on Linux)
>  The  file pathname cannot be unlinked because it is being
>  used by the system or another process and the
>  implementation considers this an error.

But if you look in the kernel source file fs/namei.c
at routine may_delete() you'll see two occasions where
an EBUSY is generated. So the above "not on Linux" is wrong.

I suggest that this '(not on Linux)' be removed. It may
also improve the page if the commentary is reworded to give a
better description of the two situations. Something along
the lines of:
> The file pathname cannot be unlinked because it is being used
> by the system, e.g. if some (relative) rootdir is mounted upon it,
> or because the NFS client software created it to represent an
> active but otherwise nameless inode ("NFS silly renamed").

Just FYI: the NFS silly rename (you'll find this term mentioned
in the kernel source code) is described at:
       http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#section_d
under section D2. The reason I found this manpage bug is because
I stumbled upon one of these silly renamed files, and an strace
of the rm-command revealed the EBUSY return errno.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2011-09-16 07:00:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ad22ad5568 ffix 2008-06-11 22:19:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a9cfde1dbc SEE ALSO: add symlink.7 2008-06-11 21:50:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24d01c530c s/filesystem/file system/ 2008-03-19 07:26:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1ffe9f5a2 s/current process/calling process/ 2007-12-27 16:06:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0daa9e92d0 Fix redundant formatting macros 2007-09-20 16:26:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c11b1abf2e Change mtk's email address 2007-09-20 06:52:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9343c5c13 Removed version number from .TH line 2007-05-30 05:36:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad7cc990f2 Change reference to path_resolution.2 to path_resolutiion.7 2007-05-26 12:41:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1c44bd5b0b Wrap long lines; start sentences on new lines 2007-04-24 16:44:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c13182efa3 Wrapped long lines, wrapped at sentence boundaries; stripped trailing 
white space.
 2007-04-12 22:42:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97c1eac86f Updated CONFORMING TO section 2006-08-03 13:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f595890250 Updates SEE ALSO 2006-04-06 08:48:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7bbd888bbb Added a little extra text to clarify EISDIR vs EPERM. 2006-03-11 23:33:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e511ffb6bc Automated addition of parentheses by add_parens_for_own_funcs.sh 2005-10-19 06:54:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 305a0578bf Global change of email address for MTK (now: mtk-manpages@gmx.net) 2004-11-03 14:43:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fea681dafb Import of man-pages 1.70 2004-11-03 13:51:07 +00:00