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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-11 05:16:43 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-11 05:16:43 +0200
commit101105b1717f536ca741f940033996302d4ef191 (patch)
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parentMerge tag 'for-linus-20161008' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd (diff)
parentMerge remote-tracking branch 'ovl/rename2' into for-linus (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: ">rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time() fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode() vfs: Add current_time() api vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename" vfs: remove unused i_op->rename fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2 libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename() fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems ncpfs: fix unused variable warning
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@@ -592,3 +592,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
work just as well; if it's something more complicated, use dentry->d_parent.
Just be careful not to assume that fetching it more than once will yield
the same value - in RCU mode it could change under you.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->rename() has an added flags argument. Any flags not handled by the
+ filesystem should result in EINVAL being returned.