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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	adilger@sun.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] vfs: new open(2) flag to open filesystem node
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 12:35:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a36005b50907051235h17f559c6w1937998c7eec0b0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1MLruc-0007O1-Sp@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 21:59, Miklos Szeredi<miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> This patch adds a new open flag, O_NODE.  This flag means: open just
> the filesystem node instead of the object referenced by the node.

I am still not sure whether this shouldn't rather be an implementation
of POSIX's O_SEARCH or whether it is already an O_SEARCH
implementation. If it's close enough it seems wasteful to add yet
another mode.  I probably cannot research it this coming week but can
try to look at it the week after that.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-05 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-30  9:56 Miklos Szeredi
2009-06-30 20:25 ` David Howells
2009-07-01  4:59   ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-07-05 19:35     ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2009-07-06  0:40       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-06  5:50         ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-07-06 12:29           ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-07-06 15:59           ` Linus Torvalds

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