Re: [RFC PATCH] vfs: new open(2) flag to open filesystem node

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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.
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