linux-ext4 - Re: Making linkat() able to overwrite the target

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Date:   Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:57:24 +0200
From:   Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
To:     Colin Walters <walters@...bum.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        xfs <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Making linkat() able to overwrite the target

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 5:52 AM Colin Walters <walters@...bum.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020, at 1:06 PM, David Howells wrote:
>
> > Yes, I suggested AT_LINK_REPLACE as said magical flag.
>
> This came up before right?
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/cover.1524549513.git.osandov@fb.com/

David,

This sounds like a good topic to be discussed at LSF/MM (hint hint)

Thanks,
Amir.