Re: [PATCH] Implement fchmodat4 system call

2015-05-12 Thread Michael Kerrisk
[CC += linux-...@vger.kernel.org] Hello William, Since this is a kernel-user-space API change, please CC linux-api@. The kernel source file Documentation/SubmitChecklist notes that all Linux kernel patches that change userspace interfaces should be CCed to linux-...@vger.kernel.org, so that the v

[PATCH] Implement fchmodat4 system call

2015-05-10 Thread William Orr
Hey, Currently, Linux's fchmodat(2) doesn't honor the flags argument. To bring it more in-line with POSIX and other implementations, this patch adds fchmodat4, which honors the flags argument, and implements the same flags as fchownat(2). This makes it possible to chmod a file without following s