linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Mark AT_* path flags as deprecated and add missing RESOLVE

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Date:   Fri, 06 Mar 2020 14:56:12 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Stefan Metzmacher <metze@...ba.org>,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, christian.brauner@...ntu.com,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Mark AT_* path flags as deprecated and add missing RESOLVE_ flags

Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com> wrote:

> But please (for now) also reserve RESOLVE_NO_AUTOMOUNTS, which would
> apply the same restriction for all path components.

I'm not going to do that for the moment.  There will be objections if it isn't
wired up for at least something - but at the moment Al doesn't want people
going and making conflicting changes in fs/namei.c with what he's doing.

David