On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:20:54PM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: > >> That said, would you still like me to take a stab at a proposal to the > >> POSIX folks that would relax the requirements to allow > >> implementation-defined behavior when the two arguments to rename > >> describe the same file but via different directory entries? > > I guess there is no point discussing in POSIX and adding extra > implementation options if no implementations do/will act accordingly. > > Linux can decide to do that independently, if appropriate. > This is one of those borderline cases where we balance > accretion of cruft vs incompatibility. > On consideration, I'm OK with keeping the existing > rename() behavior for compat and adding the new flag. > That said I still can't think of anything depending > rename() doing nothing with hardlinked source and dest. You do realize that it opens a very nasty can of worms for filesystems that are e.g. case-insensitive to some extent? How do you tell links from alternative equivalent spellings of the name? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
