On 10/01/2013 09:00 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > This series adds a new syscall, renameat2(), which is the same as renameat() > but > with a flags argument. Internally i_op->reaname2() is also added, which can > later be merged with ->rename() but is kept separately for now, since this > would > just blow up this patch without helping review.
How hard would it be to also add RENAME_NOREPLACE that fails if the destination already exists? IMO this would get rid of the last sane use of hard links (link + unlink to simulate non-clobbering rename), and it would be nice on filesystems that don't have hard links. Windows has supported this since Windows 98, IIRC (using MoveFileEx). --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
