From: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: beginners project: RENAME_EXCHANGE
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:43:52 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140923034351.GB25353@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140922173545.GA20308@infradead.org>
Hi, for some time I don't work on anything upstream due being very busy with
another stuff, I'm interested in take this project if nobody has objections
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:35:45AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-22 17:35 beginners project: RENAME_EXCHANGE Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-23 3:43 ` Carlos Maiolino [this message]
2014-09-25 15:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-25 16:09 ` Carlos Maiolino
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