From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267866AbUHZIus (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:50:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267839AbUHZIt4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:49:56 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:22921 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267866AbUHZIn6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:43:58 -0400 Message-ID: <412DA2CF.2030204@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:43:59 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Alex Zarochentsev , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , Linus Torvalds , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 References: <20040824202521.GA26705@lst.de> <412CEE38.1080707@namesys.com> <20040825200859.GA16345@lst.de> <20040825203516.GB4688@backtop.namesys.com> <20040825205149.GA17654@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20040825205149.GA17654@lst.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: >On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:35:17AM +0400, Alex Zarochentsev wrote: > > >>Reiser4 may have a mount option for whoose who like or have to use traditional >>O_DIRECTORY semantics. There would be no /metas under non-directories, if user >>wants that. >> >> > >Again, O_DIRECTORY was added to solve a real-world race, not just for >the sake of it. > Can you supply more details and we will try to reply concretely? Thanks. > If you really want to add that option I'll research the >CAN number for you so you can named it after that - or just call it -o >insecure directly. > > > > >