Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup)

From: Matthew Wilcox (matthew@wil.cx)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 12:14:41 EST


On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:51:07PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> clone(), walk(), clunk(), stat() and open() ;-) Basically, we can add
> unopened descriptors. I.e. no IO until you open it (turning the thing into
> opened one), but we can do lookups (move to child), we can clone and
> kill them and we can stat them.

Those who would like a more detailed explanation can find one at
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html

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