Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 May 1999 16:54:29 +0200 (CEST) | From | Mikulas Patocka <> | Subject | Re: VFAT rename |
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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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