Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263358AbTEMR7p (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 13:59:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263322AbTEMR7d (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 13:59:33 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:56504 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263358AbTEMR6Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 13:58:24 -0400 To: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2 References: <20030512155417.67a9fdec.akpm@digeo.com> <20030512155511.21fb1652.akpm@digeo.com> <1052834227.432.30.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> From: Trond Myklebust Date: 13 May 2003 20:11:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact postmaster@uio.no for more information X-UiO-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 805 Lines: 15 >>>>> " " == Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > Trond Myklebust wrote: >> [NFS] any more? > NFSv3 O_EXCL support in the client ? I'm working on it. Consider it bundled in the long rant that Andrew quoted concerning an atomic "open()". By allowing filesystems to replace most of what is currently contained in open_namei() (and doing it atomically instead of relying on local semaphores for atomicity) it will be possible to implement O_EXCL (and to do it efficiently)... Cheers, Trond - 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/