* David Howells: > Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Will there be any new flags for openat in the future? If not, we can >> just use a constant mask in an openat2-based implementation of openat. > > One thing we might want to look at is implementing support for > lock-on-open/create and sharing modes in openat2(). Various network > filesystems support this. Wine, CIFS and Samba particularly might be > interested in this. But will those be O_ flags that need to be passed to openat? Ignoring locking requests on older kernels because of the openat flag handling seems problematic. Thanks, Florian
