Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266465AbUIAMxM (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:53:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266362AbUIAMxI (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:53:08 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:1163 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266386AbUIAMwX (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:52:23 -0400 Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 From: Alan Cox To: Hans Reiser Cc: David Masover , Horst von Brand , Pavel Machek , Jamie Lokier , Chris Wedgwood , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List In-Reply-To: <41356321.4030307@namesys.com> References: <200408311931.i7VJV8kt028102@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <41352279.7020307@slaphack.com> <41356321.4030307@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094039355.2475.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 12:49:16 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 760 Lines: 19 On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 06:50, Hans Reiser wrote: > Yes, changing cat to use openat() is no big deal. 1-2% additional coding > cost for cat, who cares? Large cost on its own. The FSF would almost certainly reject such a change until someone had written portable emulation of the feature for every other platform which would mean vendor patches which would essentially mean it wouldn't happen. I know I rarely agree with Hans but I think he's right on this one, it has to work with the existing open() API. Alan - 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/