Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 May 2018 23:26:54 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 30/32] vfs: Allow cloning of a mount tree with open(O_PATH|O_CLONE_MOUNT) [ver #8] |
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On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 01:08:38AM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Make it possible to clone a mount tree with a new pair of open flags that > are used in conjunction with O_PATH: > > (1) O_CLONE_MOUNT - Clone the mount or mount tree at the path. > > (2) O_NON_RECURSIVE - Don't clone recursively.
Err. I don't think we should use up two O_* flags for something only useful for your new mount API. Don't we have a better place to for these flags?
Instead of overloading this on open having a specific syscalls just seems like a much saner idea.
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