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On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 10:42 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
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> Linus, you rejected resolveat() because you wanted a *nice* API

No. I rejected resoveat() because it was a completely broken garbage
API that couldn't do even basic stuff right (like O_CREAT).

We have a ton of flag space in the new openat2() model, we might as
well leave the old flags alone that people are (a) used to and (b) we
have code to support _anyway_.

Making up a new flag namespace is only going to cause us - and users -
more work, and more confusion. For no actual advantage. It's not going
to be "cleaner". It's just going to be worse.

                 Linus