Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:39:49 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: FMODE_EXEC or alike? |
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:19:48AM +0200, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > We are working on a lustre client that would not require any patches > to linux kernel. And there are few things that would be nice to have > that I'd like your input on. > > One of those is FMODE_EXEC - to correctly detect cross-node situations with > executing a file that is opened for write or the other way around, we need > something like this extra file mode to be present (and used as a file open > mode when opening files for exection, e.g. in fs/exec.c) > Do you think there is a chance this can be included into vanilla kernel, > or is there a better solution I oversee? > I am just thinking about something as simple as this > (with some suitable FMODE_EXEC define, of course):
The patch looks fine to me. We can put it in once we'll put in the full lustre client.
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