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

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On 04/23/2014 04:21 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
> <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Miklos,
>>
>>> The code changes are pushed to the git tree and the updated man page is below.
>>
>> Now that renameat2() is in 3.15, I've taken these changes. This had to be
>> manually does, because I'd done some major reworking on the pages since you
>> originally wrote your text. So, I may have injected some errors.
>>
>> I did a little light reworking of the text and added VERSIONS and
>> CONFORMING TO pieces. I also added a couple of FIXMEs, to note points
>> that will need to be updated once glibc support is (presumably) added.
>> (Carlos, what's the usual process for triggering that sort of thing?)
>>
>> Could you please review the diff below (now against rename(2)).
> 
> Looks okay.

Thanks for checking it.

> One comment on the current rename.2 page:
> 
>   #include <fcntl.h>           /* Definition of AT_* constants */
> 
> AT_ constants are not used in renameat() hence this seems unneeded.

I think you overlooked AT_FDCWD? (It is true though that that comment 
is boilerplate across the *at() pages, some of which have several 
AT_* constants.)

> Not sure where the RENAME_ constants need to go once renameat2() is
> added to glibc, possibly to <stdio.h> since they are closely related
> to rename.

Will you be prodding the glibc folks about this?

Thanks,

Michael


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