Linus wrote:
>The "2" isn't O_RDWR - rather the reverse. It's _only_ write. The flags go
>tha sane way:
> 0 = 00 - no permissions
> 1 = 01 - read permissions
> 2 = 10 - write permissions
> 3 = 11 - read and write permissions
>
>while the O_RDONLY/O_RDWR things go the wrong way
>
> 0 - read, 1 - write, 2 - read-write
>
>due to (stupid, but understandable) historical UNIX issues. The other
>O_xxx flags are the same way, because they make sense even historically.
which doesn't give me a whole lot of confidence in this line in dquot.c
(line 970, 2.1.87):
dentry = open_namei(tmp, O_RDWR, 0600);
Thanks!
Joel
joel@randomwalk.com
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