Re: Request for comments: reserving a value for O_SEARCH and O_EXEC

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 06:25:44PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:

Hi,

[I'm resending this to linux-api instead of linux-kernel on the advice
of Joseph Myers on libc-alpha. Please see the link to the libc-alpha
thread at the bottom of this message for discussion that has already
taken place.]

As told you earlier on linux-kernel just send a patch with your semantics
to lkml.  We're not going to reserve a value for a namespace that is
reserved for the kernel to implement something that should better
be done in kernel space.