Out of openat flag space

David Legault legault.david at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 13:05:42 EDT 2015


Hello,

Now that we have O_TMPFILE and O_BENEATH added to the openat flags, there
is no space left to add more flags since the flags variable is a 32 bit
int. How does one resolve this issue and extend this? A new syscall with a
64bit wide flags support?

http://www.spinics.net/lists/fstests/msg01064.html

Thanks

David
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