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SubjectRe: [patch 4/5] VFS: allow filesystems to implement atomic open+truncate
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> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> >
> > Add a new attribute flag ATTR_OPEN, with the meaning: "truncation was
> > initiated by open() due to the O_TRUNC flag".
> >
> > This way filesystems wanting to implement truncation within their
> > ->open() method can ignore such truncate requests.
> >
> > This is a quick & dirty hack, but it comes for free.
>
> Fine with me as it doesn't cause any active harm, but expect this to
> go away once the nfs intent mess is cleaned up and we'll get a real
> method for this kind of thing.

Sure.

Miklos
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