Documenting RENAME_WHITEOUT

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Hi Miklos,

I just noticed that your RENAME_WHITEOUT flag went into Linux 3.18:
commit 0d7a855526dd672e114aff2ac22b60fc6f155b08
commit 787fb6bc9682ec7c05fb5d9561b57100fbc1cc41

Would you be willing to write some text for the rename(2)/renameat2(2)
man page that described this flag. In that text it would be great to
have an explanation of what a whiteout is and why they are useful.

Cheers,

Michael

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