On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 12:25:02AM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote: > From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> > > Changes the inode associated with a dentry. This'll be useful for > implementations of linkat() AT_REPLACE. Hard NAK. That violates all kinds of assumptions made by VFS and filesystems alike; never, ever do that. If you have a reference to a positive dentry, inode should *NEVER* change. If it unhashed the old dentry, created a new one and attached inode to it, it _might_ have a chance. I'm less than sure it's a good idea, but it this form it's a non-starter. Again, NAKed-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and don't bring it back in that form. -- 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
