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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: FMODE_EXEC or alike?
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:36:05 -0800
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Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru> wrote:
>
>   Introduce FMODE_EXEC file flag, to indicate that file is being opened for
>    execution. This is useful for distributed filesystems to maintain consistent
>    behavior for returning ETXTBUSY when opening for write and execution
>    happens on different nodes.

You forgot something.

Are other clustered/distributed filesystems likely to need something like
this and if so, is this implementation sufficient for their purposes?