Return-Path: Received: from rcdn-iport-6.cisco.com ([173.37.86.77]:36909 "EHLO rcdn-iport-6.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751110AbcEYVQK (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2016 17:16:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] vfs: pass the flag setting by fcntl() to vfs To: Al Viro References: <5e560bce-837d-c1eb-7f6a-eb4fbe994433@cisco.com> <20160525195229.GG14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jeff Layton , "J. Bruce Fields" , Trond Myklebust , Anna Schumaker , Miklos Szeredi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Enke Chen From: Enke Chen Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 14:16:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160525195229.GG14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, Al: I did reply to the original thread: ------------------- > And that's not a supported use case. > Understood, and that is the reason for the simple patch :-) User-space networking stacks exist for several reasons, e.g., for migrating from micro-kernel based systems, or for avoiding large changes to the networking stack in the kernel. ------------------ Let me clarify a bit more: FUSE, being a file system, should be able to support the same flag setting as in the kernel. The patch facilitates that by passing the flags to the vfs. Does this help? Thanks. -- Enke On 5/25/16 12:52 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:03:23PM -0700, Enke Chen wrote: >> Hi, Folks: >> >> Could you accept this patch submitted on May 5, 2016? > > Not until you've addressed the objections in the original thread. > And no, "we have an application that wants it" does not qualify. > > NAKed-by: Al Viro >