Re: splice vs O_APPEND

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I do wonder if we shouldn't just do this in rw_verify_area(). The whole 
> reason for that function is that we used to have all those flock checks 
> etc spread out all over, and some path would inevitably just miss one 
> check or another. It's kind of stupid to expect low-level filesystems to 
> do the IS_APPEND/IS_IMMUTABLE checks.

Do we expect them?  I thought we don't care if it's marked immutable
or append-only after the file has been opened, same as with normal
permissions.

> Comments?

Your patch still ignores O_APPEND, is that what we want?  It sounds
sort of strange.  pwrite() for example honors O_APPEND and ignores the
position, AFAICS.

Miklos
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