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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	G 3 <programmingkidx@gmail.com>,
	Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>,
	qemu-devel qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] git master build failure in 9pfs
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 12:28:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10a63c3b-26d7-998c-4dcc-c162f144e8b7@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170303191524.048b2d1f@bahia.lan>

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On 03/03/2017 12:15 PM, Greg Kurz wrote:

> 
> O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW is a special case as described in the last paragraph
> of O_PATH in the man page:
> 
>               If  pathname  is a symbolic link and the O_NOFOLLOW flag is also
>               specified, then the call returns a file descriptor referring  to
>               the  symbolic  link.   This  file  descriptor can be used as the
>               dirfd argument in calls to fchownat(2),  fstatat(2),  linkat(2),
>               and readlinkat(2) with an empty pathname to have the calls oper‐
>               ate on the symbolic link.

Only when coupled with AT_EMPTY_PATHNAME.  Without that additional flag,
then it must be a directory.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-03 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.56273.1488553194.22740.qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
2017-03-03 15:28 ` [Qemu-devel] git master build failure in 9pfs G 3
2017-03-03 15:44   ` Greg Kurz
2017-03-03 15:55     ` G 3
2017-03-03 15:58       ` Peter Maydell
2017-03-03 16:02         ` G 3
2017-03-03 16:14         ` Greg Kurz
2017-03-03 16:21       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-03-03 16:38         ` G 3
2017-03-03 16:40         ` Eric Blake
2017-03-03 16:42           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-03-03 16:45           ` Eric Blake
2017-03-03 16:43         ` Greg Kurz
2017-03-03 18:11           ` Eric Blake
2017-03-03 18:15             ` Greg Kurz
2017-03-03 18:28               ` Eric Blake [this message]
2017-03-04 10:57                 ` Greg Kurz
     [not found] <mailman.56353.1488479169.22739.qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
2017-03-03  0:30 ` Programmingkid
2017-03-02 17:28 Mark Cave-Ayland
2017-03-02 17:40 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-03-02 18:10   ` Peter Maydell
2017-03-03 15:41     ` Greg Kurz
2017-03-03 14:43   ` Mark Cave-Ayland

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