Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: <fcntl.h> vs <asm/fcntl.h> - total mess. | Date | Wed, 23 Dec 1998 21:28:25 +0000 (GMT) |
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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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