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    SubjectRe: [stable] splice vs O_APPEND
    On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:46:00AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
    > On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
    > > >
    > > > The thing is, the append-only attribute is absolutely useless without
    > > > being able to depend on it. So in that sense I think the IS_APPEND
    > > > issue is important, and I'm fine with your original proposal for that
    > > > (except we don't need the IS_IMMUTABLE check).
    > >
    > > Heh. In the meantime, I had grown to hate that more complex patch.
    > >
    > > So because I do see your point with IS_APPEND (being different from
    > > O_APPEND), but because I also think that O_APPEND itself is a gray and
    > > murky area, I just committed the following. I doubt anybody will ever even
    > > notice it, but while I think it's all debatable, we might as well debate
    > > it with this in place. I do agree that it's "safer" behaviour.
    >
    > Thanks.
    >
    > I suspect this qualifies for stable kernels too. Stable team, can you
    > please add this to your queue?

    Queue for which kernel releases? .25, .26, and/or .27?

    thanks,

    greg k-h


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