Re: O_EXCL in NFSv3

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Tue Apr 12 2011 - 07:56:20 EST


On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 16:35 +0900, J. R. Okajima wrote:
> Hello Trond,
>
> The commit in v2.6.37
> c0204fd 2010-09-17 NFS: Clean up nfs4_proc_create()
> looks totally dropping O_EXCL flag from NFSv3.
> But fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c:nfs3_proc_create() and
> fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c:nfsd3_proc_create() still expect O_EXCL to be passed.
>
> And the commit log says "Clean up nfs4_proc_create()".
> Is this change for NFSv3 intentional?
> Actually O_EXCL in NFSv3 doesn't work in v2.6.37 and later.

Doesn't commit 8a0eebf66e3b1deae036553ba641a9c2bdbae678 (NFS: Fix NFSv3
exclusive open semantics) fix this? It should be in the stable tree.

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