From: Miklos Szeredi Deprecate access mode of '3' in open() as suggested by Linus. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/open.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/open.c~deprecate-openfoo-3 fs/open.c --- devel/fs/open.c~deprecate-openfoo-3 2005-09-12 03:34:35.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/fs/open.c 2005-09-12 03:34:35.000000000 -0700 @@ -815,7 +815,19 @@ struct file *filp_open(const char * file int namei_flags, error; struct nameidata nd; struct file *f; + static int warned; + /* + * Access mode of 3 had some old uses, that are probably not + * applicable anymore. For now just warn about deprecation. + * Later it can be changed to return -EINVAL. + */ + if ((flags & O_ACCMODE) == 3 && warned < 5) { + warned++; + printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning: '%s' (pid=%i) uses deprecated " + "open flags, please report!\n", + current->comm, current->tgid); + } namei_flags = flags; if ((namei_flags+1) & O_ACCMODE) namei_flags++; _