From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755173Ab3GTV3u (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:29:50 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f172.google.com ([209.85.192.172]:50083 "EHLO mail-pd0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754974Ab3GTV3s (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:29:48 -0400 Message-ID: <51EAF997.2090300@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:56:55 +0200 From: Michael Kerrisk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Viro CC: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , lkml , Mike Frysinger , "Theodore Ts'o" , Peter Schiffer , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , linux-man , benjamin@python.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] open(2): document O_PATH References: <20130720114017.GA2118@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130720114017.GA2118@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/20/13 13:40, Al Viro wrote: > 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... Thanks, Al. I have added that piece. Cheers, Michael