On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 04:18:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Zone append is a protocol context that ha not business showing up > in a file system interface. The right interface is a generic way > to report the written offset for an append write for any kind of file. > So we should pick a better name like FMODE_REPORT_APPEND_OFFSET > (not that I particularly like that name, but it is the best I could > quickly come up with).
Is it necessarily *append*? There were a spate of papers about ten years ago for APIs that were "write anywhere and I'll tell you where it ended up". So FMODE_ANONYMOUS_WRITE perhaps?
