Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:22:22PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> >> >> Allow filesystem to select which cases it wants to perform atomic_open. > > Given that atomic_open is allowed to return a NULL filp and fall back to > the traditional open I don't think this is needed - it can be much > cleaner handled by the fs just returning NULL for that case. Hmm, yeah. The reason I did this was to prevent doing permission/ security checks twice before create. But in fact that could be optimized away with careful code flow. I'll look into dropping this. Thanks, Miklos -- 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
