linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] cross rename

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFypLwaOAEiVV2nChiCvNh7-wysOUTheFU-RcWJ1m57wnQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 4 Oct 2013 17:11:41 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	"zab@...hat.com" <zab@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] cross rename

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>
> How hard would it be to also add RENAME_NOREPLACE that fails if the
> destination already exists?

Trivial. And I agree that that should be a good flag to have.

               Linus
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