From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add O_DENY* flags to fcntl and cifs Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:37:27 -0500 Message-ID: <20121206213727.GC4821@thunk.org> References: <1354818391-7968-1-git-send-email-piastry@etersoft.ru> <20121206194949.7ab20d56@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <20121206195752.GA18585@samba2> <20121206213133.GB4821@thunk.org> <20121206213329.GB24076@samba2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alan Cox , Pavel Shilovsky , linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, wine-devel-5vRYHf7vrtgdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jeremy Allison Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121206213329.GB24076@samba2> Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:33:29PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > I'm confused; why would a userspace application need to be able to > > request this behavior? > > This isn't my proposal Ted, I'm just commenting on it :-). Ah, sorry, I thought was coming from the Samba team. :-) Hmm... I see wine-devel is cc'ed; is this coming from the Wine team, wanting to do SMB paravirtualization? It would be useful if the commit description described how these flags are intended to be used.... - Ted