Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:39:49 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FMODE_EXEC or alike?
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:19:48AM +0200, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>    We are working on a lustre client that would not require any patches
>    to linux kernel. And there are few things that would be nice to have
>    that I'd like your input on.
> 
>    One of those is FMODE_EXEC - to correctly detect cross-node situations with
>    executing a file that is opened for write or the other way around, we need
>    something like this extra file mode to be present (and used as a file open
>    mode when opening files for exection, e.g. in fs/exec.c)
>    Do you think there is a chance this can be included into vanilla kernel,
>    or is there a better solution I oversee?
>    I am just thinking about something as simple as this
>    (with some suitable FMODE_EXEC define, of course):

The patch looks fine to me.  We can put it in once we'll put in the
full lustre client.

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