From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7D6E53F65EC for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773772637; cv=none; b=mbXsQRA8GEkvHelTKLfNtKVWK+4sDrniiSkJaBWzg+z/Px7+4AjrmWhOQKX/d2zxoWJ67GYZNgKzE94CNrGIHC79MJC7hqwe64isX9RnMtlfyYxTuL3rVPnWx161XrXsiKD3GHlmFbwCT3+t3zYRXcNtQXFNQO06PdKmeGbOm98= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773772637; c=relaxed/simple; bh=jjcYOoT+KqyE0+318IMagSsAV+L00HD2nLksUrDJOkc=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=mihAnt3AhFPMmYNe/fjVvhrY/P7HqgLV3WmGvgObHyNZn7mOGU5jrwpXF7DlmKoiz/Hpp9bZ+kux0MxLMddvaCTHiFnuYlB+bO6okfZXqfebr6Jrhyu1wVRQ7LZfe+Jh1EU5aZIUs92YY4FQRepG3Xjx2FbFMzInUQkB1+MWynY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b=HU23TiBs; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b="HU23TiBs" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) id 1B87AC2BCF5; Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [45.79.88.28]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C0D0AC4CEF7; Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:37:15 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 smtp.kernel.org C0D0AC4CEF7 Authentication-Results: smtp.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net B2A7540C7C DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1773772634; bh=Avh8bhKuzqGLIIUjaifKg+vcNZMYJQrDENcH3wShTl0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=HU23TiBswDJw7ocrB3Ctri2W3DFMwL/2dNxFiwJ4fzzBd8CStXvB3XVumbVzMZrvZ dj7BNgXi1gFXZmCIoIB6JL19enkQrRabKTa502NoNfZt+LccNv4m078xjT3IJ/8XL8 f8nEWjAiXLobDaMTGJny6nnvjGDM08J7647WLf+TgxNf466qqIwuoTP2AfT7RZVeix PavOAT/0V+8f+D+Lsg+xMGF9SB1yxzkS6D9kikgdjau4o3cGYVOkRJa0qdanItIFmO PpsCB7zvlWBRwFRhLuVv27z6PsgxW3Eu4j/DuNEAUcGxMGNwa2cbZ2C+iS/UzkDKNY TSFPhLFDi6//g== Received: from localhost (c-71-229-227-126.hsd1.co.comcast.net [71.229.227.126]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B2A7540C7C; Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:37:14 +0000 (UTC) From: Jonathan Corbet To: Sasha Levin , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, tools@kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , "Paul E. McKenney" , Dmitry Vyukov , Randy Dunlap , Cyril Hrubis , Kees Cook , Jake Edge , David Laight , Askar Safin , Gabriele Paoloni , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Christian Brauner , Alexander Viro , Andrew Morton , Masahiro Yamada , Shuah Khan , Ingo Molnar , Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] kernel/api: add API specification for sys_open In-Reply-To: References: <20260313150928.2637368-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20260313150928.2637368-6-sashal@kernel.org> <2026031343-raft-panhandle-0a21@gregkh> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:37:13 -0600 Message-ID: <878qbq9uau.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: tools@linux.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sasha Levin writes: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 04:33:57PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 11:09:15AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: >>> + * since-version: 1.0 >> >>I think since older versions :) > > Right. I guess that in my mind 1.0 was the first official "release". I'll > update it to 0.01. That kind of raises the question of just what since-version means. The version-0.01 (or 1.0) version of open() surely didn't do everything described in this specification. So it's saying that some version of the system call has existed since then? Thanks, jon