On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:53:44PM -0800, Andrew Ayer wrote: > Besides the POSIX-compliance, this patch will make it possible to > ensure, in a race-free way, that you do not follow symlinks when > chmodding. Previously, you could open a file with O_NOFOLLOW and fchmod > it, but this only worked if you had read or write permissions on the > file. Now you can open the file with O_PATH|O_NOFOLLOW and do fchmodat > with AT_EMPTY_PATH.
Alexander, this patch solves a particular problem in a useful way. I find it useful and I would be happy to see it included in mainline. Thanks, Kenny -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
