On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 08:59:01PM +1100, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > > I have heard some folks asking for a way to create a directory and get a > handle to it atomically -- so arguably this is something that could be > inside openat2()'s feature set (O_MKDIR?). But I'm not sure how popular > of an idea this is. This would be very useful to prevent race conditions between making a directory and EA's on it, as are needed by Samba for DOS attributes and Windows/NFSv4 ACLS.
