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Re: hostname again.


From: Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Subject: Re: hostname again.
Date: 04 Feb 2002 17:47:58 -0800
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James Morrison <rocketmail_com@rocketmail.com> writes:

> Actually, O_READ, O_WRITE, O_EXEC are the only things that can be
> turned on.  

No, O_APPEND, the O_*SYNC flags, and so forth, are all meaningfull.

> So O_CREAT, O_TRUNC are ignorned.  Should libnetfs be
> change to limit the usable flags to O_READ, O_WRITE, and O_EXEC as
> well?  

No.

> In libnetfs flags are directly passed down to make_peropen()
> and then put into po->openstat .  

Which is just what should happen.

> So a change from O_WRONLY and O_WRITE is completly cosmetic.

Right, but it's the right cosmetics.




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