On Oct 31, 2014 1:42 AM, "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 05:01:30PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > flink()), the mode really matters. So this idiotic glibc behavior of > > > only forwarding the third argument if O_CREAT is set seems to be a > > > bug. > > > > We could bite the bullet and add a tmpfile syscall. /me ducks > > I've got another use case for that: Samba. It wants to inherit > all kinds of attributes (xattrs, modes, etc) during file creation, > and right now it's doing it in a racy way. I've come up with a patch > to use O_TEMPFILE + flink, but it turns out that Samba may as well > be asked to create read-only files, which we can't create using > O_TMPFILE. Does the patch in this thread not fix that? -- 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
