Re: Making linkat() able to overwrite the target

From: David Howells
Date: Fri Jan 17 2020 - 06:43:08 EST


Hi Omar,

Do you still have your AT_REPLACE patches? You said that you'd post a v4
series, though I don't see it. I could make use of such a feature in
cachefiles inside the kernel. For my original question, see:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=fscache-iter

And do you have ext4 support for it?

Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxx/

David