Re: FMODE_EXEC or alike?

[Andrew Morton]

Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Introduce FMODE_EXEC file flag, to indicate that file is being opened for
>    execution. This is useful for distributed filesystems to maintain consistent
>    behavior for returning ETXTBUSY when opening for write and execution
>    happens on different nodes.

You forgot something.

Are other clustered/distributed filesystems likely to need something like
this and if so, is this implementation sufficient for their purposes?
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