linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/11] ext4: add cross rename support

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Message-ID: <20140116144856.GA16829@fieldses.org>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:48:56 -0500
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Zach Brown <zab@...hat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	"mszeredi@...e.cz" <mszeredi@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] ext4: add cross rename support

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:54:06AM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:23 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org> wrote:
> > > Do you have a man page update somewhere for the two new flags?
> 
> Here's the updated man page (and attached the patch)

Looks good to me.  Total nits:

>        RENAME_NOREPLACE
>               Don't  overwrite  the  target of the rename.  Return an error if
>               the target would be overwritten.

s/Return an error/Fail with EEXIST/?

(Since it doesn't literally return the error.)

>        ENOENT flags contain RENAME_EXCHANGE and the target of the rename  does
>               not exist

s/the target of the rename/either of the two files/

--b.
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