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SubjectRe: RFC: reject unknown open flags
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On 03/30/2017 11:19 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> like "dd" growing an atomic flag and setting it on stdout),

'dd' typically assumes that if a flag O_FOO is not #defined by
<fcntl.h>, then 'dd' can "#define O_FOO 0" and the rest of dd's code can
assume O_FOO works "well enough" on older systems. I hope this
backward-compatibility hack will suffice for O_ATOMIC too.


> I'm assuming you'd also possible want to be able to use F_SETFL to set
> O_ATOMIC after the fact

Just for fun, one thread can set O_ATOMIC at the same time another
thread is doing a 'write'....

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