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From:   Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:57:24 +0200
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Subject: Re: Making linkat() able to overwrite the target
To:     Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 5:52 AM Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020, at 1:06 PM, David Howells wrote:
>
> > Yes, I suggested AT_LINK_REPLACE as said magical flag.
>
> This came up before right?
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/cover.1524549513.git.osandov@fb.com/

David,

This sounds like a good topic to be discussed at LSF/MM (hint hint)

Thanks,
Amir.