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SubjectRe: Have RESOLVE_* flags superseded AT_* flags for new syscalls?
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Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> Regarding open flags, I think the key point for future APIs is to avoid
> using the set of flags for both control of the operation itself
> (O_NOFOLLOW/AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, O_NOCTTY) and properaties of the
> resulting descriptor (O_RDWR, O_SYNC). I expect that doing that would
> help code that has to re-create an equivalent descriptor. The operation
> flags are largely irrelevant to that if you can get the descriptor by
> other means.

It would also be nice to sort out the problem with O_CLOEXEC. That can have a
different value, depending on the arch - so it excludes at least three bits
from the O_* flag set.

David

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