From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulrich Drepper Subject: Re: [RFC] O_NOACC: open without any access Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:34:01 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, adilger@sun.com, dhowells@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f193.google.com ([209.85.221.193]:42990 "EHLO mail-qy0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751768AbZFXSlS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:41:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:06, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Is it available online somewhere? =C2=A0If not, could you please post= the > relevant parts? The OpenGroup publishes the man pages. Here is what google finds: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html > I suspect they are not quite what we want (both of them requring > MAY_EXEC on file, no?) No that's the differences between O_EXEC and O_SEARCH. We deliberately introduced two different names even though some OSes might implement it using the same flag and even though in both cases irritatingly the x permission bit is used. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html