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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 16 |
2 files changed, 21 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. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index c53784c119c8..94eb86287bcb 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 |