Re: VFAT rename
Mikulas Patocka (mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Sat, 22 May 1999 16:54:29 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
> > To what? The whole bloody problem being: target dentry (which
> > is all that represents the new name) ought to be different from the
> > source one.
>
> Agreed. *If* the file system is mounted to support changing-case-is-rename
> any case-mismatch must be initially treated as not an exact match.
What about new vfs call for it? When rename finds that source and target
dentry is the same, it calls i_op->change_case(dentry, new_name, new_len)
if such function exists.
Mikulas
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