BZ#6895: Describe DT_LNK

[Andreas Jaeger]

On 04/08/2012 06:33 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 04/08/2012 08:09 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> DT_WHT is still not documented - and set by the coda FS only.
>> Google could not help me with an explanation what it is.
>
> Presumably that's for BSD-style whiteouts.
> For more, please see:
>
> Aurora V. Union file systems: implementations, part I.
> LWN.net 2009-03-25<http://lwn.net/Articles/325369/>.

Thanks, Paul. Reading this, I think that DT_WHT should not be seen by 
userland apps and filtered out by readdir. In that case, let's not 
document it. What do you think of removing it from dirent.h?

Andreas
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