Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:26:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:26:29 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:9093 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:26:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:33:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Robert Love cc: Marco Colombo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com, riel@conectiva.com.br Subject: Re: [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O In-Reply-To: <1034172868.746.3707.camel@phantasy> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 828 Lines: 22 On 9 Oct 2002, Robert Love wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 10:10, Marco Colombo wrote: > > > > #define O_NOFOLLOW 0400000 /* don't follow links */ > > > #define O_NOFOLLOW 0x20000 /* don't follow links */ Hmm. It's been a long time since I had to use octal. Since 0400000 the exact same value as 0x20000, why not use 0x20000? It's much more common notation. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). The US military has given us many words, FUBAR, SNAFU, now ENRON. Yes, top management were graduates of West Point and Annapolis. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/