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Message-Id: <200909250223.58664.agruen@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:23:58 +0200
From:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: new O_NODE open flag

On Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:51:58 Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This patch adds a new open flag, O_NODE.  This flag means: open just
> the filesystem node instead of the object referenced by the node.

What is the intended use for O_NODE?

Thanks,
Andreas
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