On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:04:27AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Oh, so you don't actually need any file contents at all? > > If that is actually a real usage, then maybe we should just say that > "O_TMPFILE|O_RDONLY" is fine, and remove the check that it has to be > writable.
Wasn't this disallowed to prevent problems on old kernels that don't use O_TMPFILE? In that case we'd ignore the flag and would just get a file handle for the directory instead. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
