* Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org wrote:
On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 10:42 AM Andy Lutomirski luto@amacapital.net wrote:
Linus, you rejected resolveat() because you wanted a *nice* API
No. I rejected resoveat() because it was a completely broken garbage API that couldn't do even basic stuff right (like O_CREAT).
We have a ton of flag space in the new openat2() model, we might as well leave the old flags alone that people are (a) used to and (b) we have code to support _anyway_.
Making up a new flag namespace is only going to cause us - and users - more work, and more confusion. For no actual advantage. It's not going to be "cleaner". It's just going to be worse.
I suspect there is a "add a clean new flags namespace" analogy to the classic "add a clean new standard" XKCD:
Thanks,
Ingo