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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-10 20:16:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-10 20:16:43 -0700
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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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 43ef86c266ec..d619c8d71966 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -375,8 +375,6 @@ struct inode_operations {
int (*rmdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *);
int (*mknod) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t,dev_t);
int (*rename) (struct inode *, struct dentry *,
- struct inode *, struct dentry *);
- int (*rename2) (struct inode *, struct dentry *,
struct inode *, struct dentry *, unsigned int);
int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int);
const char *(*get_link) (struct dentry *, struct inode *,
@@ -442,11 +440,8 @@ otherwise noted.
rename: called by the rename(2) system call to rename the object to
have the parent and name given by the second inode and dentry.
- rename2: this has an additional flags argument compared to rename.
- If no flags are supported by the filesystem then this method
- need not be implemented. If some flags are supported then the
- filesystem must return -EINVAL for any unsupported or unknown
- flags. Currently the following flags are implemented:
+ The filesystem must return -EINVAL for any unsupported or
+ unknown flags. Currently the following flags are implemented:
(1) RENAME_NOREPLACE: this flag indicates that if the target
of the rename exists the rename should fail with -EEXIST
instead of replacing the target. The VFS already checks for