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Subject: Re: Have RESOLVE_* flags superseded AT_* flags for new syscalls?
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Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> Will there be any new flags for openat in the future?  If not, we can
> just use a constant mask in an openat2-based implementation of openat.

One thing we might want to look at is implementing support for
lock-on-open/create and sharing modes in openat2().  Various network
filesystems support this.  Wine, CIFS and Samba particularly might be
interested in this.

David