Documenting RENAME_WHITEOUT
From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2015-01-29 10:01:29
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From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2015-01-29 10:01:29
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linux-fsdevel
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/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/