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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index c53784c119c8..617f6d70c077 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -347,6 +347,8 @@ struct inode_operations { 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 *); @@ -414,6 +416,20 @@ 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: + (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 + existence, so for local filesystems the RENAME_NOREPLACE + implementation is equivalent to plain rename. + (2) RENAME_EXCHANGE: exchange source and target. Both must + exist; this is checked by the VFS. Unlike plain rename, + source and target may be of different type. + readlink: called by the readlink(2) system call. Only required if you want to support reading symbolic links @@ -580,7 +596,7 @@ struct address_space_operations { /* migrate the contents of a page to the specified target */ int (*migratepage) (struct page *, struct page *); int (*launder_page) (struct page *); - int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, read_descriptor_t *, + int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, unsigned long, unsigned long); void (*is_dirty_writeback) (struct page *, bool *, bool *); int (*error_remove_page) (struct mapping *mapping, struct page *page); |