Re: Have RESOLVE_* flags superseded AT_* flags for new syscalls?

David Howells
2020-03-05T14:34:04Z

Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> Will there be any new flags for openat in the future? If not, we can
> just use a constant mask in an openat2-based implementation of openat.

One thing we might want to look at is implementing support for
lock-on-open/create and sharing modes in openat2(). Various network
filesystems support this. Wine, CIFS and Samba particularly might be
interested in this.

David