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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: beginners project: RENAME_EXCHANGE
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:35:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140922173545.GA20308@infradead.org> (raw)

As people are looking for beginners projects one in a while there's
an easy one at the moment:  implement support for the RENAME_EXCHANGE
flag to the renameat2 system call, which swaps the names for two
existing files.  Documentation here:

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/rename.2.html

This should mostly be doable by refactoring (or more likely copy &
pasting) the existing rename implementation.  xfstests already has test
case for it, although making sure they covering everything would be a
nice extrea.

(if no one replies to the list I will add it to the wiki after a while)

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-09-22 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-22 17:35 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-09-23  3:43 ` beginners project: RENAME_EXCHANGE Carlos Maiolino
2014-09-25 15:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-25 16:09     ` Carlos Maiolino

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