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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com,
	Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	metze@samba.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	cyphar@cyphar.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Have RESOLVE_* flags superseded AT_* flags for new syscalls?
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:30:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <859019.1583159423@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7z7ngd4.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-02 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-28 14:53 Have RESOLVE_* flags superseded AT_* flags for new syscalls? David Howells
2020-02-28 15:24 ` Christian Brauner
2020-02-29 15:26   ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-02-29 15:54     ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-03-01 16:46       ` Christian Brauner
2020-03-01 16:38     ` Christian Brauner
2020-03-02 11:30   ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-02 11:52     ` Christian Brauner
2020-03-02 12:05       ` Christian Brauner
2020-03-02 15:10         ` Christian Brauner
2020-03-02 15:36           ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-03-02 16:31             ` Christian Brauner
2020-03-02 12:09       ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-02 12:19         ` Christian Brauner
2020-03-02 12:35           ` Christian Brauner
2020-03-02 12:42             ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-02 12:55               ` Christian Brauner
     [not found]               ` <20200305141154.e246swv62rnctite@yavin>
2020-03-05 15:23                 ` Christian Brauner
2020-03-05 14:33             ` David Howells
2020-03-05 14:38               ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-05 14:43               ` David Howells
2020-03-02 14:27     ` David Howells
2020-03-02 14:35       ` Christian Brauner
2020-03-02 14:50       ` David Howells
2020-03-02 15:05         ` Christian Brauner
2020-03-02 15:24           ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-03-02 16:37           ` David Howells
2020-03-06 14:48             ` David Howells
2020-03-02 15:10         ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-03-02 15:23         ` David Howells
2020-03-02 14:30   ` David Howells [this message]
2020-03-02 15:04     ` Aleksa Sarai

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