Re: open()ing a directory without O_DIRECTORY

[Jaromír Doleček <jaromir.dolecek%gmail.com@localhost>]

Le lun. 4 mars 2019 à 08:31, George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost> a écrit :
> Oh I thought the conversation had expanded to over writing old file data too, which would seem a grater value add than the dirent overwrite.

No it hasn't.

Overwriting old file data would be extremely expensive (and very bad
for durability for media - SSD/SD), and hence is very bad idea to do
for any general purpose file system.

Jaromir