[linux-cifs-client] Re: POSIX Create/Mkdir and Create Action

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:41:42PM -0600, Steve French wrote:

> My proposal would be to either:
> 1) Overload a flag in the same field with the oplock bits e.g.
>    #define CREATE_ACTION 0x0010

-1 on this. That's horrid...

> 2) Use the reserved (2 byte) pad field and call it CreateAction just as 
> it is in NTCreateX response
> (although we should probably make it 4 bytes to match NTCreateX response)

This would work. Although I still think the mkdir call
needs to return EEXIST just like a posix one.

> 3) Use a return code to indicate it existed and was opened - 
> unfortunately EEXIST is probably not possible to return as it would mean 
> the file existed and therefore could not be opened
> 
> Thoughts?  I prefer option #2

Ok, but we're revving this on the fly which I hate.... Good thing
none of this is in production code. James/George - how
far along is your client implementation ?

Jeremy.