Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I suppose you've read some of the discussions of the O_NOACCESS open flag.
> What we want is something like that.
No, never heard of O_NOACCESS. But that's what I want, yes.
> Do you know of a way to do it that's *not* portable?
Sorry, no. I wouldn't
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I installed the following patch to fix some inadequacies of coreutils
> in cases where files (particularly, directories) are writeable but
> not readable.
>
> fchdir requires only execute (search) access, so it'd be nice if we
> could somehow get a search-on
I installed the following patch to fix some inadequacies of coreutils
in cases where files (particularly, directories) are writeable but
not readable.
fchdir requires only execute (search) access, so it'd be nice if we
could somehow get a search-only file descriptor for a directory (in
particular,
