svn commit: r220241 - in stable/8/sys: kern sys

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Kostik Belousov wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 01:04:28PM -0400, Ben Kaduk wrote:
>> [replying to -fs since that is where the original discussion of adding
>> O_CLOEXEC occurred]
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kib at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Author: kib
>>> Date: Fri Apr  1 12:50:29 2011
>>> New Revision: 220241
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/220241
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>  MFC r219999:
>>>  Add O_CLOEXEC flag to open(2) and fhopen(2).
>>
>> I saw mail go by on debian-bsd at lists.debian.org that the are going to
>> pick up on these O_CLOEXEC definitions and export them, which included
>> the comment:
>> No O_SEARCH yet, since FreeBSD doesn't seem to implement it.
> What do you mean by exporting them ?

Per http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2011/07/msg00299.html , it is not 
possible for them to use our sys/fcntl.h directly, so its contents must be 
copied into a bits/fcntl.h that enters somehow into their framework.  (I 
am not familiar with how this framework works.)

>
>>
>> Would there be any reason for us to support O_SEARCH?
>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html
>> does not make it very clear to me whether we would want to....
>
> We do not support O_SEARCH because nobody implemented it yet.

Sure, but is it worth filing a PR as a reminder?

-Ben