Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add O_DENY* flags to fcntl and cifs

2012-12-06 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:33:29PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > I'm confused; why would a userspace application need to be able to > > request this behavior? > > This isn't my proposal Ted, I'm just commenting on it :-). Ah, sorry, I thought was coming from the Samba team. :-) Hmm... I see

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add O_DENY* flags to fcntl and cifs

2012-12-06 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 11:57:52AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > And this is where things get really ugly of course :-). > > For the CIFSFS client they're expecting to be able to > just ship them to a Windows server, where they'll > get the (insane) Windows semantics. These semantics > are not