Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Regarding open flags, I think the key point for future APIs is to avoid > using the set of flags for both control of the operation itself > (O_NOFOLLOW/AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, O_NOCTTY) and properaties of the > resulting descriptor (O_RDWR, O_SYNC). I expect that doing that would > help code that has to re-create an equivalent descriptor. The operation > flags are largely irrelevant to that if you can get the descriptor by > other means. It would also be nice to sort out the problem with O_CLOEXEC. That can have a different value, depending on the arch - so it excludes at least three bits from the O_* flag set. David
