Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Dec 2012 13:33:29 -0800 | From | Jeremy Allison <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add O_DENY* flags to fcntl and cifs |
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:31:33PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 11:57:52AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > > > And this is where things get really ugly of course :-). > > > > For the CIFSFS client they're expecting to be able to > > just ship them to a Windows server, where they'll > > get the (insane) Windows semantics. These semantics > > are not what would be wanted on a local filesystem. > > I'm confused; why would a userspace application need to be able to > request this behavior?
This isn't my proposal Ted, I'm just commenting on it :-).
Jeremy.
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