Re: Fwd: allow rename to "--bind"-mounted filesystem

Alex Riesen
2003-05-06T14:22:39Z

viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Tue, May 06, 2003 16:30:26 +0200:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 12:04:35PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > i just came over this patch, and wondered why is it missing
> > in both 2.4 and 2.5 (the code in do_rename is identical in both
> > kernels).
> >
> > Are such renames really not allowed, or was it just fixed differently?
>
> Such remames are _deliberately_ not allowed.
>

because that would be against semantics of a mounted filesystem?
(which, in turn, would break something)