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| author | Al Viro | 2012-06-10 18:05:36 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro | 2012-07-14 16:34:47 +0400 |
| commit | ebfc3b49a7ac25920cb5be5445f602e51d2ea559 (patch) | |
| tree | c3241f875dd04ab9f63b4e7ded7ed206e4df1b9f /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
| parent | 72bd866a01fc62ccbc466f3eb7599b14c937e96b (diff) | |
don't pass nameidata to ->create()
boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead;
Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed
not to be there yet.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 690f573928b9..2bef2b3843d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -436,3 +436,9 @@ d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails. [mandatory] The witch is dead! Well, 2/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() and ->lookup() do *not* take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags. +-- +[mandatory] + ->create() doesn't take struct nameidata *; unlike the previous +two, it gets "is it an O_EXCL or equivalent?" boolean argument. Note that +local filesystems can ignore tha argument - they are guaranteed that the +object doesn't exist. It's remote/distributed ones that might care... |