Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752650AbZIYVSk (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:18:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752534AbZIYVSk (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:18:40 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:47324 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752515AbZIYVSj (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:18:39 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Cc: Miklos Szeredi , Andreas Gruenbacher , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: new O_NODE open flag In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:35:23 BST." <20090925183523.GA6065@gallifrey> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200909250223.58664.agruen@suse.de> <20090925123747.GA31228@gallifrey> <9988.1253899252@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20090925183523.GA6065@gallifrey> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1253913514_2918P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:18:34 -0400 Message-ID: <19645.1253913514@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1095 Lines: 33 --==_Exmh_1253913514_2918P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:35:23 BST, "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" said: > I know it's not possible without this flag, my interest is whether > it would be possible WITH this flag to promote an fd opened with the > O_NODE to a normal fd, guaranteeing that it's still operating on the > same object. Well, maybe the question is if we should treat "promote" differently than "re-open"? (And now I'm wondering what happens if you dup() one of these beasts....) --==_Exmh_1253913514_2918P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFKvTOqcC3lWbTT17ARAs97AJ4nTBjrPPdhH9lCxdJrJC1lnuUOFACgh4yT Mpp/3jf5pOuFT3p1V0Mf3yY= =Th5X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1253913514_2918P-- -- 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/