From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Paul Edwards  writes:   
   > On 20/02/24 17:53, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   >> Paul Edwards  writes:   
   >>> I'd like to add an O_TEXT flag to Linux. It would be good if Linux   
   >>> officially reserved a flag for this use, but in the absence of that,   
   >>> I'm happy to create my own.   
   >>   
   >> You’d need to ask on the linux-kernel mailing list, I think. But I   
   >> wouldn’t predict a very positive response.   
   >   
   > That's what I'm predicting too. So can you suggest   
   > a flag? I think Linux is consuming flags going up,   
   > so I could go down for anything I need, and have   
   > 0x80000000 mean "O_TEXT".   
      
   No, I can’t suggest a flag. I have no more control over the Linux ABI   
   than you do. That’s why I pointed you to linux-kernel.   
      
   > Any suggestions within the constraints of the Linux people having   
   > different goals to me?   
      
   I think you should rethink your goals and/or your approach to meeting   
   them. open/read/write is the wrong place to translate between line   
   ending conventions.   
      
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