On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 17:43:25 +0200 Irek Szczesniak wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > this will be in the next alpha as
> >         /dev/fcntl@...
> > because it works on all types of paths, even /dev/fd
> >
> > the patch happened quickly because the background work in pathdev() and
> > syscall restart intercepts (both part of the stability/debugging flurry 
> > this summer)
> > were already in place
> >
> > it handles relative paths like this
> >         /dev/fcntl@direct/./file_in_pwd

> I don't like the name. It implies that all fcntl operations are
> possible which is not the case. For example, how do you pass the
> return value of fcntl() back to the user and what does it mean? How do
> you implement locks, shares, leases with /dev/fcntl? The name is
> misleading.

fair enough
how about "oflags" 

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