Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] Add fchmodat4(), a new syscall

Rich Felker
2019-07-17T02:40:46Z

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 06:27:17PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> man 3p says that fchmodat() takes a flags argument, but the Linux
> syscall does not. There doesn't appear to be a good userspace
> workaround for this issue but the implementation in the kernel is pretty
> straight-forward. The specific use case where the missing flags came up
> was WRT a fuse filesystem implemenation, but the functionality is pretty
> generic so I'm assuming there would be other use cases.

Note that we do have a workaround in musl libc with O_PATH and
/proc/self/fd, but a syscall that allows a proper fix with the ugly
workaround only in the fallback path for old kernels will be much
appreciated!

What about also doing a new SYS_faccessat4 with working AT_EACCESS
flag? The workaround we have to do for it is far worse.

Rich