Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink

Oliver Neukum
2003-04-06T20:21:32Z

Am Sonntag, 6. April 2003 22:08 schrieb Malcolm Beattie:
> Oliver Neukum writes:
> > If you have an fd, the permissions based on the path are already
> > bypassed, whether you can call flink or not, aren't they?
>
> Not if it's opened O_RDONLY, for example.

OK, so you could open a file RW even if the fd you get passed
is only RO, right?

Regards
Oliver