Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765727AbXILVj7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:39:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756939AbXILVjw (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:39:52 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:35348 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756786AbXILVjv (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:39:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:39:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Brent Casavant Reply-To: Brent Casavant To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: O_NOLINK for open() In-Reply-To: <46E85528.3010405@zytor.com> Message-ID: <20070912163645.E5573@pkunk.americas.sgi.com> References: <20070912144128.D5573@pkunk.americas.sgi.com> <46E85528.3010405@zytor.com> Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. 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: 1072 Lines: 29 On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Brent Casavant wrote: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=93032806224160&w=2 > > This link talks about file flags handling. I don't see the relevance to > this problem at all. However, this is a very long thread, so if there > is anything specific that you want to point to, then please elucidate. Oops, my mistake -- I pasted the wrong URL. I meant this thread, this post in particular: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=88937224115435&w=2 Still, O_NOLINK would seem to be a valuable addition, and greatly simplify secure temporary file creation. Brent -- Brent Casavant All music is folk music. I ain't bcasavan@sgi.com never heard a horse sing a song. Silicon Graphics, Inc. -- Louis Armstrong - 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/