From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH] open(2): document O_PATH Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:40:17 +0100 Message-ID: <20130720114017.GA2118@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: lkml , Mike Frysinger , Theodore Ts'o , Peter Schiffer , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , linux-man , benjamin-+ZN9ApsXKcEdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:35:59AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hello Al et al, > > Documenting O_PATH fell by the wayside last year > (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/2790) as I got distracted > with other tasks. A recent prod or two have reminded me restart this. > I have the following patch queued to document O_PATH. > > Could you please review. I've provided the O_PATH doc both as > formatted text, for ease of reviewing, and as a patch and entire file > (attached). Seems to be mostly correct; the only thing missing is that F_GETFL is also allowed (and return value will contain O_PATH for such descriptors). Had been there since the very beginning... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html