On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 21:59, Miklos Szeredi<miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch adds a new open flag, O_NODE. This flag means: open just > the filesystem node instead of the object referenced by the node. I am still not sure whether this shouldn't rather be an implementation of POSIX's O_SEARCH or whether it is already an O_SEARCH implementation. If it's close enough it seems wasteful to add yet another mode. I probably cannot research it this coming week but can try to look at it the week after that. -- 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