From: "Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com>
To: "Aleksa Sarai" <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: openat, mkdirat, and TOCTOU for directory creation
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 15:03:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C9KKYZ4T5O53.338Y48UIQ9W3H@taiga> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210227175833.qgj4qrzz7aqe4zah@yavin.dot.cyphar.com>
On Sat Feb 27, 2021 at 12:58 PM EST, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> Maybe a mkdirat2(2) (which takes a flags argument -- sigh) that can be
> told to return a handle to the new directory would be a nicer API.
That seems appropriate. Hear hear on the sigh.
> Changing the semantics of open scares me a fair bit -- you could
> probably change openat2(2) since it's not as widely used yet.
Seems agreeable, at least for a start.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-27 20:11 UTC|newest]
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2021-02-27 14:27 openat, mkdirat, and TOCTOU for directory creation Drew DeVault
2021-02-27 17:58 ` Aleksa Sarai
2021-02-27 20:03 ` Drew DeVault [this message]
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