On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:23:53 +0100 (BST), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan
Cox) said:
>> A chflags() call that takes a union of special flags would be a much
>> less destructive way of adding the new functionality.
> A variant of ioctl that doesn't follow device nodes to the device would
> be an even simpler, even shorter and even more flexible solution to the
> entire problem.
Linus has already reject that solution, so we do need a separate
interface for flag setting. However, we can still make the new internal
syscall interface pretty flexible, if we add a length word to allow the
flags to be expanded in the future (say, to include things like posix
capability masks).
--Stephen
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