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In message <20050413081543.S28571@mail.chesapeake.net>, Jeff Roberson writes:
>On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
>> * Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> [050412 23:22] wrote:
>> > On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> >
>> > > Thank you very much.  I'll update the docs when you're done.
>> >
>> > Don't you only need to know which calls are going to open, or do you also
>> > need modifying ops like unlike and rename?
>>
>> Autofs does not support rename and unlink semantics were not as
>> important as being able to differentiate between open(2) and stat(2).
>
>So would an ISOPEN flag work?  We could do this rather than replace NOOBJ
>in every syscall you don't care about.  I'm trying to figure out if the
>positive cases are fewer than the negative.

ISOPEN gets my vote.

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