Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:57:21 -0500 | Subject | Re: FMODE_EXEC or alike? | From | "J. Bruce Fields" <> |
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:32:31PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > Hmm... I don't think you want to overload write deny bits onto > FMODE_EXEC. FMODE_EXEC is basically, a read-only mode, so it > would mean that you could no longer do something like > > OPEN(READ|WRITE,DENY_WRITE) > > which I would assume is one of the more frequent Windoze open modes.
Since exec will never use the above combination, I don't think the current proposal mandates any particular semantics in that case.
So I'm assuming that we could choose the semantics to fit nfsd's purposes. Am I missing anything?
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