Just thinking about this again, why don't you put the flag into file->f_mode and the FMODE_* namespace given that we don't want it to be settable from open? -- 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