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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-10-11 06:02:51 +0300
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-10-11 06:02:51 +0300
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'ovl/rename2' into for-linus
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@@ -592,3 +592,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
work just as well; if it's something more complicated, use dentry->d_parent.
Just be careful not to assume that fetching it more than once will yield
the same value - in RCU mode it could change under you.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->rename() has an added flags argument. Any flags not handled by the
+ filesystem should result in EINVAL being returned.