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.
