From: Matthijs van Duin <matthijsvanduin@gmail.com>
To: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: AT_REPLACE flag for linkat()
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 09:18:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190408071610.GA23532@squirrel.local> (raw)
In the mailing list archives I found the patch series "fs: add
AT_REPLACE flag for linkat()" to allow atomically replacing a file with
a hardlink to an existing file, which can be combined with O_TMPFILE to
atomically replace files with new content without having to use named
temporary files (and risk leaving them behind on power loss).
I would really love to have this functionality, but it seems activity
just stopped around May 2018, with the last I could find being:
On Fri, 4 May 2018 11:30:13 -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> Ping, Al, can you take a look?
What happened to it? Is there still any hope for this patch series?
Matthijs van Duin
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