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SubjectRe: FMODE_EXEC or alike?
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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