On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 02:01:07PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 10:42:13AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 11:40:36AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > I meant something like this which should effectively be the same thing
> > > just that we move the burden of having to use two bits completely into
> > > file->f_iocb_flags instead of wasting a file->f_mode bit:
> >
> > Yeah, that could work. But I think the double use of f_iocb_flags is
> > a bit confusing. Another option at least for this case would be to
> > have a FOP_ flag, and then check inside the operation if it is supported
> > for this particular instance.
>
> Do you want to try something like that? Maybe we can do this for other
> FMODE_*-based IOCB_* opt{in,outs}?
Yes, I also need to move on of the FOP_ flags to a scheme like that.
However I'm pretty busy at the momen, so I'm unlikely to get to it
before mid-September.
