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		cyphar on Aug 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to change symlinks atomically (2005) It creates a full inode using shmem[1], which eventually goes to ramfs[2]. It's a real inode in every sense of the word. [1]: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/mm/shmem.c?v=4.2#L2949 [2]: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/fs/ramfs/inode.c?v=4.2#...

geocar on Aug 21, 2016 [–]

I have been indelicate: What Linux calls an "struct inode" is not what UNIX traditionally called an inode[1], and I meant the latter without perhaps enough specificity.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode

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