Re: [PATCH v6 00/12] vfs: add O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY to open*(2)

[Christian Brauner]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 12:38:33PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:50:04 +0200, Jori Koolstra wrote:
> > Finally got back from holiday. I know Neil is also attempting to make
> > changes to the same code paths as the O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY series touch,
> > so I hope, now that I have a bit more time, that I can push this
> > forwards before I have to do more rebasing.
> > 
> > This series implements new semantics for the O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY flag
> > combination for open*(2): perform a mkdir and open the resulting
> > directory; return a pinning fd (which mkdir does not).
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Applied to the vfs-7.4.lookup branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
> Patches in the vfs-7.4.lookup branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Dropped after I reviewed it once more. But we're close, I think.