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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 3893f4d44cd4..b968084eeac1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -451,9 +451,6 @@ otherwise noted. exist; this is checked by the VFS. Unlike plain rename, source and target may be of different type. - readlink: called by the readlink(2) system call. Only required if - you want to support reading symbolic links - get_link: called by the VFS to follow a symbolic link to the inode it points to. Only required if you want to support symbolic links. This method returns the symlink body @@ -468,6 +465,12 @@ otherwise noted. argument. If request can't be handled without leaving RCU mode, have it return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD). + readlink: this is now just an override for use by readlink(2) for the + cases when ->get_link uses nd_jump_link() or object is not in + fact a symlink. Normally filesystems should only implement + ->get_link for symlinks and readlink(2) will automatically use + that. + permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like filesystem. |