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[46.139.12.213]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u22sm32329249wru.72.2019.09.09.23.35.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 09 Sep 2019 23:35:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 08:35:32 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 11/12] open: openat2(2) syscall Message-ID: <20190910063532.GB1579@gmail.com> References: <20190904201933.10736-1-cyphar@cyphar.com> <20190904201933.10736-12-cyphar@cyphar.com> <7236f382d72130f2afbbe8940e72cc67e5c6dce0.camel@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20190909_233540_042053_27740BA5 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 12.92 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linux-sh list , Peter Zijlstra , Rasmus Villemoes , Alexei Starovoitov , Linux List Kernel Mailing , David Howells , "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan , linux-arch , linux-s390 , Tycho Andersen , Aleksa Sarai , Jiri Olsa , Alexander Shishkin , Ingo Molnar , Linux ARM , linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, Kees Cook , Arnd Bergmann , Jann Horn , Aleksa Sarai , Al Viro , Andy Lutomirski , Shuah Khan , Namhyung Kim , David Drysdale , Christian Brauner , "J. Bruce Fields" , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k , Linux API , Chanho Min , Jeff Layton , Oleg Nesterov , Andy Lutomirski , Eric Biederman , alpha , linux-fsdevel , Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Linux Containers Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org * Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 10:42 AM Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > > Linus, you rejected resolveat() because you wanted a *nice* API > > No. I rejected resoveat() because it was a completely broken garbage > API that couldn't do even basic stuff right (like O_CREAT). > > We have a ton of flag space in the new openat2() model, we might as > well leave the old flags alone that people are (a) used to and (b) we > have code to support _anyway_. > > Making up a new flag namespace is only going to cause us - and users - > more work, and more confusion. For no actual advantage. It's not going > to be "cleaner". It's just going to be worse. I suspect there is a "add a clean new flags namespace" analogy to the classic "add a clean new standard" XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/ Thanks, Ingo _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel