Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755519AbZGETgZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2009 15:36:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752725AbZGETgO (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2009 15:36:14 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f202.google.com ([209.85.212.202]:45421 "EHLO mail-vw0-f202.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752778AbZGETgN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2009 15:36:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JzynYnZzGX3Mi/EJmXMyBK2l0bkV1EbBDBt+s62G3LA+9zqpArN6sbX+Vfhy2C8Drq LNRRM9qX0HSYpK5KfKhFrrm+E5Iu5ejT+vCn80XvlY/foH2aO7QPTAiW8bYPpeJjG9GS 17A0kpz/kyIA/N1wINuwaSBD4gNHSOUPb/6CM= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <2547.1246393535@redhat.com> From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 12:35:51 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] vfs: new open(2) flag to open filesystem node To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, adilger@sun.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 761 Lines: 14 On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 21:59, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > This patch adds a new open flag, O_NODE.  This flag means: open just > the filesystem node instead of the object referenced by the node. I am still not sure whether this shouldn't rather be an implementation of POSIX's O_SEARCH or whether it is already an O_SEARCH implementation. If it's close enough it seems wasteful to add yet another mode. I probably cannot research it this coming week but can try to look at it the week after that. -- 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/