Re: [PATCH] fuse: skip lookup during atomic_open() when O_CREAT is set

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 at 16:37, Bernd Schubert <bernd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> After the discussion about LOOKUO_HANDLE my impression was actually that
> we want to use compounds for the atomic open.

I think we want to introduce an atomic operation that does a lookup +
an optional mknod, lets call this LOOKUP_CREATE_FH, this would return
a flag indicating whether the file was created or if it existed prior
to the operation.

Then, instead of the current CREATE operation there would be a
compound with LOOKUP_CREATE_FH + OPEN.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,
Miklos