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SubjectRe: <fcntl.h> vs <asm/fcntl.h> - total mess.
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> situation is a complete mess. The O_xxx flags for open(2) are duplicated in
> the glibc2's <fcntl.h> and the kernel's <linux/fcntl.h> (or <asm/fcntl.h>
> the same). So, if I now implement O_NOFOLLOW or O_NONAME as an enhancement to

Thats intended

> open(2) it is not immediately visible to user space. And if I force user

Equally if you change something incompatibly its not visible in a way where
the library cannot preserve compatibility. Glibc for example doesn't have
32bit inode numbers of 32bit file offset limits.

Alan

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