On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 23:55, Miklos Szeredi<miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The sole purpose is to help race free "userspace lookup" type > operations. So fstat, fch*, *at work but nothing else. Filesystem's > ->open() is not called and f_op is set to NULL. Before adding something like this, please look at the 2009 POSIX spec. There are two new open() flags which have to be implemented: O_EXEC and O_SEARCH. These might already suffice for what you want. -- 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