Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from fn.samba.org ([216.83.154.106]:38929 "EHLO mail.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1424779Ab2LFVde (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:33:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 13:33:29 -0800 From: Jeremy Allison To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Jeremy Allison , Alan Cox , Pavel Shilovsky , linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, wine-devel@winehq.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add O_DENY* flags to fcntl and cifs Message-ID: <20121206213329.GB24076@samba2> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison References: <1354818391-7968-1-git-send-email-piastry@etersoft.ru> <20121206194949.7ab20d56@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <20121206195752.GA18585@samba2> <20121206213133.GB4821@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20121206213133.GB4821@thunk.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:31:33PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 11:57:52AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > > > And this is where things get really ugly of course :-). > > > > For the CIFSFS client they're expecting to be able to > > just ship them to a Windows server, where they'll > > get the (insane) Windows semantics. These semantics > > are not what would be wanted on a local filesystem. > > I'm confused; why would a userspace application need to be able to > request this behavior? This isn't my proposal Ted, I'm just commenting on it :-). Jeremy.