On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 09:59:53AM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote: > Hi, > > This height patch series rework the previous O_MAYEXEC series by not > adding a new flag to openat2(2) but to faccessat2(2) instead. As > suggested, this enables to perform the access check on a file descriptor > instead of on a file path (while opening it). This may require two > checks (one on open and then with faccessat2) but it is a more generic > approach [8].
Again, why is that folded into lookup/open/whatnot, rather than being an operation applied to a file (e.g. O_PATH one)?
