Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 May 1999 13:20:31 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: VFAT rename |
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On Sat, 22 May 1999, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 1999, Raul Miller wrote: > > Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote: > > > To what? The whole bloody problem being: target dentry (which > > > is all that represents the new name) ought to be different from the > > > source one. > > > > Agreed. *If* the file system is mounted to support changing-case-is-rename > > any case-mismatch must be initially treated as not an exact match. > > What about new vfs call for it? When rename finds that source and target > dentry is the same, it calls i_op->change_case(dentry, new_name, new_len) > if such function exists.
Will not help.
$ touch foo/bar $ mv baz foo/BAR
I have a patch and I'll post it for testing on Monday, when I'll have some time to clean it up. Sorry, too much real-life shit right now... I'll be more or less free after the weekend. Cheers, Al
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