Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752839AbZIYAYi (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:24:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751812AbZIYAYh (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:24:37 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:37158 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750992AbZIYAYh (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:24:37 -0400 From: Andreas Gruenbacher Organization: SUSE Labs / Novell To: Miklos Szeredi Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: new O_NODE open flag Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:23:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909250223.58664.agruen@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 501 Lines: 13 On Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:51:58 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. What is the intended use for O_NODE? Thanks, Andreas -- 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/