From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulrich Drepper Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] vfs: new open(2) flag to open filesystem node Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 12:35:51 -0700 Message-ID: References: <2547.1246393535@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, adilger@sun.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f202.google.com ([209.85.212.202]:45421 "EHLO mail-vw0-f202.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752778AbZGETgN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2009 15:36:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 21:59, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > This patch adds a new open flag, O_NODE. =C2=A0This flag means: open = just > the filesystem node instead of the object referenced by the node. I am still not sure whether this shouldn't rather be an implementation of POSIX's O_SEARCH or whether it is already an O_SEARCH implementation. If it's close enough it seems wasteful to add yet another mode. I probably cannot research it this coming week but can try to look at it the week after that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html