From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752696AbZKGR6t (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:58:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752635AbZKGR6s (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:58:48 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:38778 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752629AbZKGR6s (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:58:48 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:58:46 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, dhowells@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org, adilger@sun.com, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, drepper@gmail.com, jamie@shareable.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 resend] vfs: new O_NODE open flag Message-ID: <20091107175846.GA5361@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20091105131545.72b4e319@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20091106141742.GA1428@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > I'm more and more convinced, that the current behavior is the right > > > one. > > > > I think the 15 or so years we have had the current behavior without > > problems is persuasive. > > > > I think it is an interesting puzzle on how to get dup instead of > > reopen as there are cases where that could be useful behavior as well. > > Probably doable with ptrace(). Confused, where does ptrace fit the picture? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html