On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:46:00AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > > > The thing is, the append-only attribute is absolutely useless without > > > being able to depend on it. So in that sense I think the IS_APPEND > > > issue is important, and I'm fine with your original proposal for that > > > (except we don't need the IS_IMMUTABLE check). > > > > Heh. In the meantime, I had grown to hate that more complex patch. > > > > So because I do see your point with IS_APPEND (being different from > > O_APPEND), but because I also think that O_APPEND itself is a gray and > > murky area, I just committed the following. I doubt anybody will ever even > > notice it, but while I think it's all debatable, we might as well debate > > it with this in place. I do agree that it's "safer" behaviour. > > Thanks. > > I suspect this qualifies for stable kernels too. Stable team, can you > please add this to your queue? Queue for which kernel releases? .25, .26, and/or .27? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
