Re: [PATCH 3/4] fs: expose LOOKUP_NONBLOCK through openat2() RESOLVE_NONBLOCK

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On 12/15/20 3:31 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 2:25 PM Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> What text are you going to add to the man page to describe how this
>> flag behaves to developers?
> 
> I think it was you or Jens who suggested renaming it to RESOLVE_CACHED
> (and LOOKUP_CACHED), and I think that would be a good idea.

Yeah that was me, and I think it helps both internally in terms of the
code being easier/better to read, and when exposed as a user API as
well. It makes it readily apparent what it does, which is much better
than requring lengthy descriptions of it...

I'll go ahead and make the edit.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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