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From: "Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com>
To: "Al Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Aleksa Sarai" <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: introduce mkdirat2 syscall for atomic mkdir
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 21:21:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C9KSZTRJ2CL6.DWD539LYTVZX@taiga> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YDr8UihFQ3M469x8@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk>

On Sat Feb 27, 2021 at 9:13 PM EST, Al Viro wrote:
> No to the ABI part; "on error it returns -E..., on success - 0 or a
> non-negative number representing a file descriptor (zero also
> possible, but unlikely)" is bloody awful as calling conventions go,
> especially since the case when 0 happens to be a descriptor is not
> going to get a lot of testing on the userland side.

Hm, I was just trying to mimic the behavior of open(2). Do you have a
better suggestion?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-28  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-28  0:25 [RFC PATCH] fs: introduce mkdirat2 syscall for atomic mkdir Drew DeVault
2021-02-28  2:13 ` Al Viro
2021-02-28  2:21   ` Drew DeVault [this message]
2021-02-28  2:58     ` Al Viro
2021-02-28 13:56       ` Drew DeVault
2021-03-01 19:02       ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-08 13:50         ` Stefan Metzmacher
2021-02-28  2:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-28  2:26   ` Drew DeVault
2021-02-28  4:03     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-28 13:57       ` Drew DeVault
2021-03-01 19:09         ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-01 19:35           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-01 20:10             ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-02  8:24             ` Miklos Szeredi
2021-03-02  7:13         ` Amir Goldstein
2021-03-03  2:39           ` Aleksa Sarai

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