Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from fn.samba.org ([216.83.154.106]:39047 "EHLO mail.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754672Ab2LFVjq (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:39:46 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 13:39:44 -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: <20121206213944.GD24076@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> <20121206213329.GB24076@samba2> <20121206213727.GC4821@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20121206213727.GC4821@thunk.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:37:27PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:33:29PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > > 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 :-). > > Ah, sorry, I thought was coming from the Samba team. :-) Well it sort of is, as the people working on cifsfs are also Samba Team members, but this isn't an official "Samba" thing, as I can't see exactly what apps would want this either (other than Samba smbd running on top of smbd, re-exporting a cifsfs share, pointing to a Samba server, running on a... ERROR STACK OVERFLOW :-). > Hmm... I see wine-devel is cc'ed; is this coming from the Wine team, > wanting to do SMB paravirtualization? It would be useful if the > commit description described how these flags are intended to be used.... Indeed :-). Jeremy.