From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH] open(2): document O_PATH Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:44:10 -0400 Message-ID: <20120430114410.GB28308@thunk.org> References: <1335669917-23970-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <877gwxacti.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877gwxacti.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , Mike Frysinger , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, Richard Weinberger , lkml List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org It might also be a good idea to document explicitly whether or not things like fstat() and the syscalls to manipulate extended attributes are expected to work. Thanks, - Ted