Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 4 authors, 2014-09-28

Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally.

From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: 2014-09-24 18:55:21
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:14:33PM +0400, Mikhail Efremov wrote:
Only exchange source and destination filenames
if flags contain RENAME_EXCHANGE.
In case if executable file was running and replaced by
other file /proc/PID/exe should still show correct file name,
not the old name of the file by which it was replaced.
Yecchhhh...  Applied, but it's very ugly.  Oh, well - regression is
regression, and I don't see a cleaner fix at the moment.  If I don't
manage to come up with anything prettier, to Linus it goes in tonight
pull request ;-/
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