Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Nov 2014 00:27:21 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: allow open(dir, O_TMPFILE|..., 0) with mode 0 |
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:04:27AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Oh, so you don't actually need any file contents at all? > > If that is actually a real usage, then maybe we should just say that > "O_TMPFILE|O_RDONLY" is fine, and remove the check that it has to be > writable.
Wasn't this disallowed to prevent problems on old kernels that don't use O_TMPFILE? In that case we'd ignore the flag and would just get a file handle for the directory instead.
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