On April 7, 2015 1:05:42 PM EDT, David Legault <legault.david@gmail.com> wrote:
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
That would be the easiest way to my knowledge. However with anything system call related, test it out in every way you can think of as not to break user space applications using this call already . I am curious through as to your reasoning for changing this system call as generally this is only done only with either a very good reason or when it is a must. Hope this helps, Nick
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