From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Arthur Williams <taaparthur@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Allow open with O_CREAT to succeed if existing dir is specified
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 12:42:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YM3mJjDovNHUxZ8v@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210619110148.30412-1-taaparthur@gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 06:01:48AM -0500, Arthur Williams wrote:
> Make opening a file with the O_CREAT flag a no-op if the specified file
> exists even if it exists as a directory. Allows userspace commands, like
> flock, to open a file and create it if it doesn't exist instead of
> having to parse errno.
Not going to happen. It's a user-visible behaviour, consistent between
all kinds of Unices, consistent with POSIX and it does make sense.
NAK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-19 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-19 11:01 [PATCH] fs: Allow open with O_CREAT to succeed if existing dir is specified Arthur Williams
2021-06-19 12:42 ` Al Viro [this message]
2021-06-19 14:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
[not found] ` <CAJ6D+Z96OWwZMzickLP3PtUnsJhSfZqTnLrmk4-t5iNUid=N=Q@mail.gmail.com>
2021-06-19 15:09 ` Al Viro
2021-07-01 2:19 ` [fs] 87f196bed3: xfstests.generic.157.fail kernel test robot
2021-07-01 9:48 ` David Sterba
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