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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FMODE_EXEC or alike?
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:57:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060222195721.GC28219@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140564751.8088.35.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:32:31PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Hmm... I don't think you want to overload write deny bits onto
> FMODE_EXEC. FMODE_EXEC is basically, a read-only mode, so it
> would mean that you could no longer do something like
> 
>   OPEN(READ|WRITE,DENY_WRITE) 
> 
> which I would assume is one of the more frequent Windoze open modes.

Since exec will never use the above combination, I don't think the
current proposal mandates any particular semantics in that case.

So I'm assuming that we could choose the semantics to fit nfsd's
purposes.  Am I missing anything?

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-22 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-20 22:19 FMODE_EXEC or alike? Oleg Drokin
2006-02-21  5:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-21 11:30   ` Oleg Drokin
2006-02-21 11:36     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-21 11:56       ` Oleg Drokin
2006-02-21 13:59   ` Trond Myklebust
2006-02-21 14:15     ` Antonio Vargas
2006-02-21 14:21       ` Oleg Drokin
2006-02-22  9:57         ` Antonio Vargas
2006-02-21 14:42       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-02-21 23:26     ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-02-21 23:32       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-02-22 19:57         ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2006-02-22 21:36           ` Trond Myklebust
2006-02-22 22:04             ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-02-22 22:17               ` Trond Myklebust
2006-02-22 23:31                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-02-21 10:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-22  1:03   ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-02-22  8:59     ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-02-22 21:42       ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-02-22 22:02         ` Christoph Hellwig

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