Hans
Matthew Kirkwood writes:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> > > Aha - so Hans want open() to work on directories only when app does
> > > open("/etc", O_OPEN_DIRECTORY_AS_FILE)
> > >
> > > ? That will not break anything, but I doubt it is better than
> > > open("/etc#opendirasfile", O_RDONLY)
> >
> > How about open("/etc/", O_RDWR)?
> >
> > With the user library translating that to open("/etc/..body", O_RDWR)
>
> You lose the ability to have these things read only in that case.
>
> Not ideal...
>
> Matthew.
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