On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > 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. Is it available online somewhere? If not, could you please post the relevant parts? > There are two new open() flags which have to be implemented: O_EXEC > and O_SEARCH. These might already suffice for what you want. I suspect they are not quite what we want (both of them requring MAY_EXEC on file, no?) Thanks, Miklos -- 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
