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Re: Request for comments: reserving a value for O_SEARCH and O_EXEC
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst dot de>
- To: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>
- Cc: linux-api at vger dot kernel dot org, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 07:54:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: Request for comments: reserving a value for O_SEARCH and O_EXEC
- References: <20130805222544 dot GA19168 at brightrain dot aerifal dot cx>
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 06:25:44PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [I'm resending this to linux-api instead of linux-kernel on the advice
> of Joseph Myers on libc-alpha. Please see the link to the libc-alpha
> thread at the bottom of this message for discussion that has already
> taken place.]
As told you earlier on linux-kernel just send a patch with your semantics
to lkml. We're not going to reserve a value for a namespace that is
reserved for the kernel to implement something that should better
be done in kernel space.