Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757098Ab3GVIrX (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 04:47:23 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:48625 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756848Ab3GVIrV (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 04:47:21 -0400 Message-ID: <51ECF166.4080007@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:46:30 +0200 From: Peter Schiffer Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Kerrisk CC: Al Viro , lkml , Mike Frysinger , "Theodore Ts'o" , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , linux-man , benjamin@python.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] open(2): document O_PATH References: <20130720114017.GA2118@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <51EAF997.2090300@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51EAF997.2090300@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1434 Lines: 44 On 07/20/2013 10:56 PM, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > On 07/20/13 13:40, Al Viro wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:35:59AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> Hello Al et al, >>> >>> Documenting O_PATH fell by the wayside last year >>> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/2790) as I got distracted >>> with other tasks. A recent prod or two have reminded me restart this. >>> I have the following patch queued to document O_PATH. >>> >>> Could you please review. I've provided the O_PATH doc both as >>> formatted text, for ease of reviewing, and as a patch and entire file >>> (attached). >> >> Seems to be mostly correct; the only thing missing is that F_GETFL is also >> allowed (and return value will contain O_PATH for such descriptors). Had >> been there since the very beginning... > > Thanks, Al. I have added that piece. > Michael, there is a typo within added piece: diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2 index c61ea7f..ef0f664 100644 --- a/man2/open.2 +++ b/man2/open.2 @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ and .IP * Retrieving open file status flags using the .BR fcntl (2) -.BR F_GETFD +.BR F_GETFL operation: the returned flags will include the bit .BR O_PATH . -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/