Re: [PATCH 13/25] cifs: implement i_op->atomic_open() andi_op->atomic_create()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Mar 13 2012 - 08:06:54 EST


On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:22:30PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
>
> Replace CIFS's ->create operation with ->atomic_open and ->atomic_create. Also
> move the relevant code from ->lookup into the create function.
>
> CIFS currently only does atomic open for O_CREAT, but it wants to do that as
> early as possible, without first calling ->lookup, so it uses ->atomic_open,
> just like NFS.

Why does cifs need to set the created flag from inside ->atomic_open?

It's different from everyone else in that respect.

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