From: Steven Stewart-Gallus Subject: [PATCH 1/1] include/uapi: Define AT_FDNODIR constant as future guarantee Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 19:51:19 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Content-disposition: inline Content-language: en Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: Jeff Layton , "J. Bruce Fields" , linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Andy Lutomirski List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org From: Steven Stewart-Gallus --- This is my first kernel patch but this is really trivial so I hope I'm doing this right. diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h index 074b886..92223f0 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h @@ -38,9 +38,15 @@ #define DN_ATTRIB 0x00000020 /* File changed attibutes */ #define DN_MULTISHOT 0x80000000 /* Don't remove notifier */ +#define AT_FDNODDIR -1 /* Special value used to indicate + openat should not use any directory. + Currently, other values work for this + but in the future that might + change. */ #define AT_FDCWD -100 /* Special value used to indicate - openat should use the current - working directory. */ + openat should use the current + working directory. */ + #define AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW 0x100 /* Do not follow symbolic links. */ #define AT_REMOVEDIR 0x200 /* Remove directory instead of unlinking file. */