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