Re: [PATCH] open.2, rename.2: refer to tmpfs rather than shmem

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 2/10/21 7:12 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Hi Alyssa!
> 
> * Alyssa Ross <hi@xxxxxxxxx>, 2021-02-10, 17:42:
>> Skimming open(2), I was surprised not to see tmpfs mentioned as a 
>> filesystem supported by O_TMPFILE.
>>
>> If I'm understanding correctly (I'm very possibly not!), tmpfs is a 
>> filesystem built on shmem, so I think it's more correct (and probably 
>> much more widely understandable) to refer to tmpfs here.
> 
> This is my understanding too. See 
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-man/msg13703.html for previous 
> discussion.
> 
> (Michael was going to fix rename.2 back then, but something went wrong.)

Mea culpa. I fixed it in one place in page[1], but missed the other.

Thanks,

Michael

[1]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=010a79cd86da27a665346e96ad93945c42ace9b1

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/



[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Documentation]     [Netdev]     [Linux Ethernet Bridging]     [Linux Wireless]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Linux for Hams]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux Admin]     [Samba]

  Powered by Linux