Re: [PATCH] O_NOATIME support

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 06:44:01PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

> This is less related to your patch (i like this feature!) but more
> to the current source layout: is there a reason for not sharing
> those open flags on an non architecture specific file?

We just never did it that way, and they are not all the same across
all architectures.

> And should you not try to use the same value on all architectures to
> make that especially easy to change later?

They are ABI specific and will never change.


  --cw
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