Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Aug 1997 04:55:33 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: chflags() or...? [not: Re: Ext2fs getting hosed by fsck] |
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:42:21 +0200 From: Janos Farkas <Janos.Farkas-#QK62Trgra5Kf5.RZk0HZ1/cpKyi@shadow.banki.hu>
Hmm.. I was a bit tired recently, and thought about something like a new syscall to open an _inode_, but later realised that it could be done with a flag to open(), maybe O_INODE, O_NOFOLLOW, or whatever.
Does that sound too ill? If it fits into VFS somehow, it could be a quick solution to:
I understand the concern to try to keep the number of system calls to a minimum, but it sounds really ill to me at least. Adding this kind of modal interface to system calls seems like a really bad idea to me.... we would be fundamentally changing what ioctl() does depending on an open flag, and that makes me feel really icky.
- Ted
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