Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:19:19 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink |
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Hi,
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> |> I wouldn't rely on this functionality, not all filesystems might like it > |> to have to recreate a deleted fs entry. Most filesystems should be able to > |> do this, but all fs drivers have to be checked, that they do the right > |> thing. > > All filesystems already have to cope with unlinking of an open file > anyway, so relinking should not be a problem.
I know, but creating a new dir entry and linking to an existing dir entry is not always the same, e.g. filesystems, where a dir entry is not simply a pointer to an inode table, have to update other entries as well to create a new link. So far filesystems could assume that source dentry was a valid dir entry, this patch changes this.
bye, Roman
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