On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh >> Maybe I wasn't clear, in that case I'm sorry. To me, O_ATOMIC is > Whether this should map to O_ATOMIC in glibc or be something new, I don't > care. But if it is a flag, I'd highly suggest naming it O_CREATEUNLINKED or > something else that won't give people wrong ideas, as _nothing_ but the > final inode linking is atomic. How does this solve the meta-data issue? Olaf