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SubjectRe: [PATCH 30/32] vfs: Allow cloning of a mount tree with open(O_PATH|O_CLONE_MOUNT) [ver #8]
On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 01:08:38AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Make it possible to clone a mount tree with a new pair of open flags that
> are used in conjunction with O_PATH:
>
> (1) O_CLONE_MOUNT - Clone the mount or mount tree at the path.
>
> (2) O_NON_RECURSIVE - Don't clone recursively.

Err. I don't think we should use up two O_* flags for something
only useful for your new mount API. Don't we have a better place
to for these flags?

Instead of overloading this on open having a specific syscalls just
seems like a much saner idea.

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