Hi! On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 02:07:05PM +0400, Pavel Shilovsky wrote: > If O_DENYDELETE flag is specified and the open succeded, > any further unlink operation will fail with -ESHAREDENIED > untill this open is closed. Now this flag is processed by > VFS and CIFS filesystem. NFS returns -EINVAL for opens > with this flag. This looks really, really good, thanks! One question: If Samba wants to open a file for delete access, there's no corresponding flag in the open permissions. There can be the case where Samba wants to open *just* for future unlink, no read or write access required. Is there a way to achieve this atomically correct? Thanks, Volker -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.sernet.de, mailto:kontakt@xxxxxxxxx -- 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