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>
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Al Viro
2012-06-10 18:05:36 -04:00
parent 72bd866a01
commit ebfc3b49a7
51 changed files with 62 additions and 64 deletions

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@@ -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.
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[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...