kvm_create() (was Re: [PATCH 0/7] KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine)

[Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>]

I don't have much clue what the context of this is, but one chunk caught
my eye:

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 06:16:27PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Your example above could translate to something like:
> 
>    int kvm_fd = kvm_create("/kvm/my_vcpu")
>    int mem_fd = openat(kvm_fd, "mem", O_RDWR);

Based just on this snippet, it seems to me that kvm_create() could be
simply:
    open("/kvm/my_vcpu", O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_DIRECTORY, 0777);

(Which currently seems to silently mask out O_DIRECTORY, but seems to me
should be a synonym for mkdir().)

-andy