Messages in this thread | | | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Date | Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:02:04 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC] O_NOACC: open without any access |
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 23:55, Miklos Szeredi<miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote: > The sole purpose is to help race free "userspace lookup" type > operations. So fstat, fch*, *at work but nothing else. Filesystem's > ->open() is not called and f_op is set to NULL.
Before adding something like this, please look at the 2009 POSIX spec. There are two new open() flags which have to be implemented: O_EXEC and O_SEARCH. These might already suffice for what you want. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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