Re: [RFC] O_NOACC: open without any access

[David Howells]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That said, I do _not_ like the notion of
> 
> 	> Add a new inode->i_filesystem_fop pointer
> 
> regardless of whether it's in inode->i_op or wherever. I think we should 
> just handle this in the regular "inode->f_op->open" routine, the same way 
> we handle FMODE_EXCLUSIVE (O_EXCL), FMODE_NDELAY (O_NONBLOCK) and lack of 
> access rights (O_NOACCESS) in the driver open routines that currently 
> handle those specially (O_NDELAY is spe

Did you accidentally delete more than the word 'special' there?

David
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