Re: Documenting RENAME_WHITEOUT

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Hi Miklos,

Ping!

Cheers,

Michael


On 29 January 2015 at 11:01, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
<mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Michael Kerrisk
> Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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