The curious case of O_DIRECTORY|O_CREAT
The curious case of O_DIRECTORY|O_CREAT
Posted Mar 28, 2023 4:11 UTC (Tue) by josh (subscriber, #17465)In reply to: The curious case of O_DIRECTORY|O_CREAT by brauner
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Thank you! Sorry I missed that.
But in any case, Linus pointed out open's hard-to-extend semantics (the same ones that motivated O_TMPFILE), which make it less worthwhile to attempt to make this work.
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