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SubjectRe: VFAT rename


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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