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Message-ID: <20091107175846.GA5361@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:58:46 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, dhowells@...hat.com, hch@...radead.org,
	adilger@....com, mtk.manpages@...il.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, drepper@...il.com,
	jamie@...reable.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 resend] vfs: new O_NODE open flag

Hi!

> > > I'm more and more convinced, that the current behavior is the right
> > > one.
> > 
> > I think the 15 or so years we have had the current behavior without
> > problems is persuasive.
> > 
> > I think it is an interesting puzzle on how to get dup instead of
> > reopen as there are cases where that could be useful behavior as well.
> 
> Probably doable with ptrace().

Confused, where does ptrace fit the picture?
									Pavel
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