* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 10:42 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Linus, you rejected resolveat() because you wanted a *nice* API > > No. I rejected resoveat() because it was a completely broken garbage > API that couldn't do even basic stuff right (like O_CREAT). > > We have a ton of flag space in the new openat2() model, we might as > well leave the old flags alone that people are (a) used to and (b) we > have code to support _anyway_. > > Making up a new flag namespace is only going to cause us - and users - > more work, and more confusion. For no actual advantage. It's not going > to be "cleaner". It's just going to be worse. I suspect there is a "add a clean new flags namespace" analogy to the classic "add a clean new standard" XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/ Thanks, Ingo
