Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Aug 29 2004 - 00:04:05 EST




On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> I object to openat().....

Sound slike you object to O_XATTRS, not openat() itself.

Realize that openat() works independently of any special streams, it's
fundamentally a "look up name starting from this file" (rather than
"starting from root" or "starting from cwd").

Linus
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