linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfs: new O

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Message-ID: <20090925170831.GB25073@shareable.org>
Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:08:31 +0100
From:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>, agruen@...e.de,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: new O_NODE open flag

Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> We could implement something similar for non-directories as well, by
> treating a NULL path parameter to openat() to mean - reopen:
> 
>   fd2 = openat(fd, NULL, O_RDWR);

It would be nice to make this behavior consistent across all the *at()
functions where it is acceptable.

-- Jamie
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