Re: Making linkat() able to overwrite the target

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To: "David Howells" <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Al Viro" <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Making linkat() able to overwrite the target
From: "Colin Walters" <walters@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 19:46:25 -0500
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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/

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