This is the per-I/O equivalent of O_APPEND to support atomic append operations on any open file. On Linux, if a file is opened with O_APPEND, pwrite() ignores the offset and always appends data to the end of the file. RWF_APPEND enables atomic append and pwrite() with offset on a single file descriptor. Signed-off-by: Jürg Billeter <j@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++ include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index e723b62c4b81..5f27ef9cce17 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -3187,6 +3187,8 @@ static inline int kiocb_set_rw_flags(struct kiocb *ki, rwf_t flags) ki->ki_flags |= IOCB_DSYNC; if (flags & RWF_SYNC) ki->ki_flags |= (IOCB_DSYNC | IOCB_SYNC); + if (flags & RWF_APPEND) + ki->ki_flags |= IOCB_APPEND; return 0; } diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h index ea84938da405..5477480d0502 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h @@ -330,7 +330,11 @@ typedef int __bitwise __kernel_rwf_t; /* per-IO, return -EAGAIN if operation would block */ #define RWF_NOWAIT ((__force __kernel_rwf_t)0x00000008) +/* per-IO O_APPEND */ +#define RWF_APPEND ((__force __kernel_rwf_t)0x00000010) + /* mask of flags supported by the kernel */ -#define RWF_SUPPORTED (RWF_HIPRI | RWF_DSYNC | RWF_SYNC | RWF_NOWAIT) +#define RWF_SUPPORTED \ + (RWF_HIPRI | RWF_DSYNC | RWF_SYNC | RWF_NOWAIT | RWF_APPEND) #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_FS_H */ -- 2.14.1
