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Re: [PATCH] posix: Add p{read,write}v2 RWF_NOWAIT flag (BZ#21738)
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 21:31:54 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] posix: Add p{read,write}v2 RWF_NOWAIT flag (BZ#21738)
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* Adhemerval Zanella:
> +@item RWF_SUPPORTED
> +Mask with all supported flags.
I assume the kernel intends to add further flags in the future. I'm
not sure it's wise to provide this to applications because it's not
very likely that it's going to match the flag mask used by the kernel.