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open() is covered

open() is covered

Posted Mar 26, 2004 22:51 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: A new file_operations method by chip
Parent article: A new file_operations method

There has always been a VFS call for open(); a filesystem driver could always fail an open() if it didn't like the open flags.

Until now, the filesystem driver was not involved in the general case of fcntl(); there was no way a filesystem driver could cause an fcntl() that changes open flags to fail.


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