Filesystem-oriented flags: sad, messy and not going away
Filesystem-oriented flags: sad, messy and not going away
Posted Mar 17, 2020 10:25 UTC (Tue) by josh (subscriber, #17465)In reply to: Filesystem-oriented flags: sad, messy and not going away by smurf
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I agree, and I prefer the Linux approach.
That said, it'd be interesting if we had a slightly more extensible syscall layer that could tell when an argument was passed or not passed, which would allow existing existing syscalls without having to create new ones.
It's looking increasingly like io_uring might be that extensible syscall layer.