Currently creating tmpfiles on Linux can be problematic because the tmpfile is not created and opened at the same time (vfs_tmpfile calls into the fs, then later vfs_open is called to open the tmpfile). For some filesystems it would be more natural to create and open the tmpfile as one operation (because the action of creating the file on some filesystems returns an open handle, so closing it then reopening it would cause the tmpfile to be deleted). I would like to discuss whether the function do_tmpfile (which creates and then opens the tmpfile) could have an option for a filesystem to do this as one operation which would allow it to be more atomic and allow it to work on a wider variety of filesystems. -- Thanks, Steve
