Re: Request for comments: reserving a value for O_SEARCH and O_EXEC

2013-08-12 Thread Rich Felker
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:42:03AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > You'll have the same problem that O_TMPFILE had: the kernel currently > ignores unrecognized flags. I wonder if it's time to add a new syscall > (or syscalls) with more sensible semantics. That's not a problem here. In fact, in th

Re: Request for comments: reserving a value for O_SEARCH and O_EXEC

2013-08-12 Thread Andy Lutomirski
[cc: linux-api] On 08/02/2013 07:48 PM, Rich Felker wrote: > Hi, > > At present, one of the few interface-level conformance issues for > Linux against POSIX 2008 is lack of O_SEARCH and O_EXEC. I am trying > to get full, conforming support for them both into musl libc (for > which I am the maint

Request for comments: reserving a value for O_SEARCH and O_EXEC

2013-08-02 Thread Rich Felker
Hi, At present, one of the few interface-level conformance issues for Linux against POSIX 2008 is lack of O_SEARCH and O_EXEC. I am trying to get full, conforming support for them both into musl libc (for which I am the maintainer) and glibc (see the libc-alpha post[1]). At this point, I believe i