Re: Have RESOLVE_* flags superseded AT_* flags for new syscalls?

[David Howells]

Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Will there be any new flags for openat in the future?  If not, we can
> just use a constant mask in an openat2-based implementation of openat.

One thing we might want to look at is implementing support for
lock-on-open/create and sharing modes in openat2().  Various network
filesystems support this.  Wine, CIFS and Samba particularly might be
interested in this.

David