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

[James Peach]

On 09/03/2007, at 9:28 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:45:01PM -0600, Steve French wrote:
>
>> Don't we need one more thing in the POSIX Create/Mkdir/Open response?
>
> posix_mkdir returns EEXIST (or the NT_STATUS equivalent -
> NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_COLLISION) if the pathname already
> existed, just like the system call.
>
>> In particular the CreateAction "FILE_CREATE" (not sure if the server
>> ever returns FILE_SUPERSEDE).
>>
>> Are there CreateActions others that the client should care about?
>>
>> The client pays attention to whether the file was created or  
>> opened e.g.
>> when the user asks us to overwrite the inodes default uid/gid with  
>> our
>> default uid/gid (although not the default mount option - it is  
>> allowed)
>> we need to know if the file is new.
>
> I didn't know you needed to know that on posix_open.
> If you need that info you need to change the spec,
> now, before anything goes into production.

I don't think I quite understand the proposal. Can you rephrase it?

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