Hi, Christoph: On 5/9/16 12:02 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 05:50:32PM -0700, Enke Chen wrote: >> As explained in the email, currently the validation of the flags does reach >> the vfs, but the setting does not. > > s/vfs/fs/, and yes, that's intentional. > >> We have an application that uses the FUSE >> to implement a user-space socket, and the flags are needed. > > And that's not a supported use case. > Understood, and that is the reason for the simple patch :-) User-space networking stacks exist for several reasons, e.g., for migrating from micro-kernel based systems, or for avoiding large changes to the networking stack in the kernel. What is the concern with the patch? Regards, -- Enke -- 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
