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On 10/3/23 19:44, Jim Mattson wrote:
> I'm a little surprised at the pushback, TBH. Are you implying that
> there is some advantage to *not* passing this bit through?

I'm not really trying to push back.  I'm honestly just curious.  Linux
obviously doesn't cat about the bit.  So is this for some future Linux
or some other OS?