From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk,
dhowells@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org, adilger@sun.com,
mtk.manpages@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
drepper@gmail.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: new O_NODE open flag
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:26:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091008132636.GA29691@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1MvonW-0004rO-4A@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> There's been a fair amount of interest in the concept, but less actual
> review of the details.
>
> Changes from the last posting:
>
> - make fchmod() fail on symlinks
fchmodat(2) says:
AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
If pathname is a symbolic link, do not dereference it:
instead operate on the link itself. This flag is not
currently implemented.
If the flag were implemented, it would make sense for fchmod() on a
symlink to succeed, wouldn't it?
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-08 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-08 8:56 [PATCH v2] vfs: new O_NODE open flag Miklos Szeredi
2009-10-08 13:26 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-10-08 13:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
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