Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add O_DENY* flags to fcntl and cifs

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:33:29PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > I'm confused; why would a userspace application need to be able to
> > request this behavior?
>
> This isn't my proposal Ted, I'm just commenting on it :-).

Ah, sorry, I thought was coming from the Samba team.  :-)

Hmm... I see wine-devel is cc'ed; is this coming from the Wine team,
wanting to do SMB paravirtualization?  It would be useful if the
commit description described how these flags are intended to be used....

- Ted