On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > 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. Umm. That makes no sense at all. O_SEARCH is only meaningful for directories. For anything else, it's not at all POSIX - it's expressly defined to be "undefined". So clearly, O_SEARCH is absolutely the _wrong_ thing to do. Claiming that "it is POSIX" is pure and utter garbage, because it is _not_ POSIX in any relevant way. Sure, POSIX allows us to have flying monkeys out of our butts when you specify O_SEARCH, but where's the advantage? Undefined behavior is undefined behavior. It would be clearly and unambiguously _better_ to have another O_xyz flag, that people can then do #ifdef O_xyz .. get some well-defined Linux extension behavior .. #endif in their source code, rather than overlead an undefined case with random crap. Linus -- 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
