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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Request for comments: reserving a value for O_SEARCH and O_EXEC
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 07:54:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130806055425.GA9280@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130805222544.GA19168@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 06:25:44PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> [I'm resending this to linux-api instead of linux-kernel on the advice
> of Joseph Myers on libc-alpha. Please see the link to the libc-alpha
> thread at the bottom of this message for discussion that has already
> taken place.]

As told you earlier on linux-kernel just send a patch with your semantics
to lkml.  We're not going to reserve a value for a namespace that is
reserved for the kernel to implement something that should better
be done in kernel space.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-06  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-05 22:25 Request for comments: reserving a value for O_SEARCH and O_EXEC Rich Felker
2013-08-06  5:54 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
     [not found]   ` <20130806055425.GA9280-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-06 13:42     ` Rich Felker
2013-08-06 14:03       ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]         ` <20130806140321.GA4421-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-06 14:36           ` Rich Felker
     [not found]             ` <20130806143609.GV221-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-06 14:51               ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]                 ` <20130806145159.GA8192-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-06 15:23                   ` Rich Felker
     [not found]                     ` <20130806152316.GW221-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-06 15:53                       ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-08-06 15:54                       ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]                         ` <20130806155415.GA12926-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-06 16:30                           ` Rich Felker
     [not found] <20130803024808.GA26932@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
     [not found] ` <20130803024808.GA26932-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-12 17:42   ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]     ` <52091E6B.10800-3s7WtUTddSA@public.gmane.org>
2013-08-13  3:22       ` Rich Felker

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