Re: [PATCH 28/33] vfs: syscall: Add fsconfig() for configuring and managing a context [ver #11]

Miklos Szeredi [off-list ref] wrote:

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However, as I have said, I *am* willing to add one of more flags to help
with this, but I can't make any "legacy" fs honour them as this requires
the fs_context to be passed down to sget_fc() and the filesystem - which
is why I was considering leaving it for later.

You can determine at fsopen() time whether the filesystem is able to
support the O_EXCL behavior?  If so, then it's trivial to enable this
conditionally.  I think that's what Eric is asking for, it's obviously
not fair to ask for a change in behavior of the legacy interface.

What do you mean by "enable it conditionally"?  It cannot be enabled for
filesystems that don't pass fs_context down to sget().

mount(2) mustn't enable it lest it break userspace.

fsopen(2) can let userspace set a flag to enable it.

David