Duane Griffin wrote: > 2009/11/24 Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>: > > On Tue 2009-11-24 12:53:09, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > >> I still believe leaving the current semantics and documenting them is > >> the best option. > > > > I believe that current semantics is ugly enough that 'documenting' it > > is not enough... and people want to port from other systems, too, not > > expecting nasty surprises like this... > > Solaris 10 works the same way as Linux does now, so I don't think the > porting argument gets you anywhere. It certainly must be similar, as gnulib uses the same technique on both Solaris and Linux. I don't have a Solaris to try this on. Can you use /proc to re-open with O_RDWR a file descriptor previously opened with O_RDONLY on Solaris 10, assuming the underlying inode allows writing? -- Jamie -- 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
