From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] vfs: Define new syscall umask2 [formerly getumask]
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:15:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160414091547.GB28599@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160414090938.44c56c78@canb.auug.org.au>
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 09:09:38AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 20:05:33 +0100 "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > It's not possible to read the process umask without also modifying it,
> > which is what umask(2) does. A library cannot read umask safely,
> > especially if the main program might be multithreaded.
>
> I was wondering if you really need to read the umask, or would just a
> "ignore umask" flag to open{,at} do what you want?
This would be very useful, although I think being able to read umask
is also useful.
---
FWIW I am currently developing a patch to add umask to
/proc/PID/status. Will post it shortly once I've tested it properly.
Rich.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-13 19:05 [PATCH v4 0/3] vfs: Define new syscall umask2 [formerly getumask] Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-13 19:05 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] vfs: Define new syscall umask2 Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-13 19:05 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] x86: Wire up new umask2 system call on x86 Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-13 19:57 ` kbuild test robot
2016-04-13 19:05 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] vfs: selftests: Add test for umask2 system call Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-13 19:29 ` umask2 man page (was: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] vfs: Define new syscall umask2 [formerly getumask]) Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-13 19:37 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] vfs: Define new syscall umask2 [formerly getumask] H. Peter Anvin
2016-04-13 20:45 ` Florian Weimer
2016-04-13 20:53 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-13 23:09 ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-04-14 9:15 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
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