Re: chflags() or...? [not: Re: Ext2fs getting hosed by fsck]

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 12:39:01 -0700 (PDT)

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On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Janos Farkas wrote:
>
> Hmm.. I was a bit tired recently, and thought about something like a
> new syscall to open an _inode_, but later realised that it could be
> done with a flag to open(), maybe O_INODE, O_NOFOLLOW, or whatever.

I'd much rather just have a "set/getflags()" system call. It's easier to
implement, and doesn't add any interfaces that might become hard to
maintain over time.

Linus

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