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-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 1888da76510..909e13ef520 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -63,17 +63,23 @@ extern int dir_notify_enable;
#define MAY_ACCESS 16
#define MAY_OPEN 32
+/*
+ * flags in file.f_mode. Note that FMODE_READ and FMODE_WRITE must correspond
+ * to O_WRONLY and O_RDWR via the strange trick in __dentry_open()
+ */
+
/* file is open for reading */
#define FMODE_READ (1)
/* file is open for writing */
#define FMODE_WRITE (2)
/* file is seekable */
#define FMODE_LSEEK (4)
-/* file can be accessed using pread/pwrite */
+/* file can be accessed using pread */
#define FMODE_PREAD (8)
-#define FMODE_PWRITE FMODE_PREAD /* These go hand in hand */
+/* file can be accessed using pwrite */
+#define FMODE_PWRITE (16)
/* File is opened for execution with sys_execve / sys_uselib */
-#define FMODE_EXEC (16)
+#define FMODE_EXEC (32)
#define RW_MASK 1
#define RWA_MASK 2