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Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFS: pass the flag setting by fcntl() to vfs
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On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 05:50:32PM -0700, Enke Chen wrote:
> As explained in the email, currently the validation of the flags does reach
> the vfs, but the setting does not.

s/vfs/fs/, and yes, that's intentional.

> We have an application that uses the FUSE
> to implement a user-space socket, and the flags are needed.

And that's not a supported use case.