On 2023-08-12 21:04, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@xxxxxxxxx>, 2023-08-12 20:08:
>>> Bitten by this again. Behaviour blames back to at least 2005 (so
>>> probably original to shmem.c), documented upstream in tmpfs.txt.
>
> (I've been bitten by this too!)
>
>> This is a bit unclear to me. I guess you refer to the Linux kernel as
>> "upstream", but the Linux kernel repository doesn't have a tmpfs.txt
>> file. I recall that they moved their .txt docs to .rst, so would you
>> please share the full link to the .txt file that you refer? That way
>> you can ask git(1) to show the history of that file even if it doesn't
>> exist now.
>
> You can ask git for history of tmpfs.txt even if you don't know the
> exact location, although admittedly it's pretty slow:
>
> $ git log --oneline -1 '**/tmpfs.txt'
> 7e7cd458b810 docs: filesystems: convert tmpfs.txt to ReST
>
> $ git show --oneline --stat 7e7cd458b810
> 7e7cd458b810 docs: filesystems: convert tmpfs.txt to ReST
> Documentation/filesystems/index.rst | 1 +
> Documentation/filesystems/{tmpfs.txt => tmpfs.rst} | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
Interesting. Thanks!
>
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