On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 09:06:29AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > I think the risks of changing behavior outweigh the benefits. How many > > times did you have to remove or rename a mounted file or directory? It's > > very rarely needed. > > I do this every time I reinstall a system while running that system. > Admittedly, mount --move works, but that's a really unpleasant > interface. > > When rename2 gets added, there could be a flag RENAME_MOVE_MOUNT to opt in.
Good point. Opting in would be the safest for both unlinkat() and renameat2(). Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
