Re: hostname again.

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

James Morrison <rocketmail_com@rocketmail.com> writes:

>  Humm, I seem to be missing something.  The flags are passed to the
> glibc function __dir_mkfile which makes an RPC dir_mkfile call to
> the proper translator.  In the case of lib diskfs/dir-mkfile.c the
> flags are untouched until line 70: 
> 
>   flags &= (O_READ | O_WRITE | O_EXEC);
> 
> Then the flags are passed to diskfs_make_peropen.
> 
>   flags &= (O_READ | O_WRITE | O_EXEC);
> should removed all options that are turned on but O_READ, O_WRITE,
> and O_EXEC right?

You're right.  I think however that this is wrong.  Perhaps we should
just drop that line.  

Roland, can you compare the current behavior of dir-mkfile.c with the
open mode bits, and make a suggestion about what you think we should
do?  This is our own function, so we can tweak the semantics as we
please.