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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-12-12 12:29:35 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-12-12 12:29:35 +0300
commitc1dfdc7597d051b09555d4ae2acb90403e238746 (patch)
tree86aa49f5a2ab25459f9196dd6724bbe6645b1375 /include/linux/fs.h
parentefbe027e95dc13ac343b6130948418d7ead7ddf1 (diff)
parent8b1fae4e4200388b64dd88065639413cb3f1051c (diff)
downloadlinux-c1dfdc7597d051b09555d4ae2acb90403e238746.tar.xz
Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc8' into sched/core
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h33
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 0dcdd9458f4b..4a853ef6fd35 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -63,23 +63,24 @@ extern int dir_notify_enable;
#define MAY_ACCESS 16
#define MAY_OPEN 32
-#define FMODE_READ ((__force fmode_t)1)
-#define FMODE_WRITE ((__force fmode_t)2)
-
-/* Internal kernel extensions */
-#define FMODE_LSEEK ((__force fmode_t)4)
-#define FMODE_PREAD ((__force fmode_t)8)
-#define FMODE_PWRITE FMODE_PREAD /* These go hand in hand */
-
-/* File is being opened for execution. Primary users of this flag are
- distributed filesystems that can use it to achieve correct ETXTBUSY
- behavior for cross-node execution/opening_for_writing of files */
-#define FMODE_EXEC ((__force fmode_t)16)
-
-#define FMODE_NDELAY ((__force fmode_t)32)
-#define FMODE_EXCL ((__force fmode_t)64)
+/* file is open for reading */
+#define FMODE_READ ((__force fmode_t)1)
+/* file is open for writing */
+#define FMODE_WRITE ((__force fmode_t)2)
+/* file is seekable */
+#define FMODE_LSEEK ((__force fmode_t)4)
+/* file can be accessed using pread/pwrite */
+#define FMODE_PREAD ((__force fmode_t)8)
+#define FMODE_PWRITE FMODE_PREAD /* These go hand in hand */
+/* File is opened for execution with sys_execve / sys_uselib */
+#define FMODE_EXEC ((__force fmode_t)16)
+/* File is opened with O_NDELAY (only set for block devices) */
+#define FMODE_NDELAY ((__force fmode_t)32)
+/* File is opened with O_EXCL (only set for block devices) */
+#define FMODE_EXCL ((__force fmode_t)64)
+/* File is opened using open(.., 3, ..) and is writeable only for ioctls
+ (specialy hack for floppy.c) */
#define FMODE_WRITE_IOCTL ((__force fmode_t)128)
-#define FMODE_NDELAY_NOW ((__force fmode_t)256)
#define RW_MASK 1
#define RWA_MASK 2