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

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Sep 24 2014 - 14:55:28 EST


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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