Re: [RFC PATCH] vfs: new open(2) flag to open filesystem node

[Ulrich Drepper]

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 17:40, Linus
Torvalds<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> O_SEARCH is only meaningful for directories. For anything else, it's not
> at all POSIX - it's expressly defined to be "undefined".

And this is why there is the differentiation with O_EXEC.  Yes, i
didn't mention it in the last email.  But I mentioned it when it came
up the first time.

I don't say this is indeed what is wanted/needed here.  But there are
IMO some similarities and I think implementing O_SEARCH and O_EXEC is
desirable.  If it means completely different implementations from te
proposed O_NODE, so be it.  But my gut tells me there is some overlay.
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