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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>2014-04-01 17:08:42 +0200
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>2014-04-01 17:08:42 +0200
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vfs: add renameat2 syscall
Add new renameat2 syscall, which is the same as renameat with an added flags argument. Pass flags to vfs_rename() and to i_op->rename() as well. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 5b0c083d7c0e..f424e0e5b46b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ prototypes:
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);
void * (*follow_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *);
void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *);
@@ -78,6 +80,7 @@ mkdir: yes
unlink: yes (both)
rmdir: yes (both) (see below)
rename: yes (all) (see below)
+rename2: yes (all) (see below)
readlink: no
follow_link: no
put_link: no
@@ -96,7 +99,8 @@ tmpfile: no
Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on
victim.
- cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem.
+ cross-directory ->rename() and rename2() has (per-superblock)
+->s_vfs_rename_sem.
See Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking for more detailed discussion
of the locking scheme for directory operations.