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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 06/27] containers, vfs: Allow syscall dirfd arguments to take a container fd
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Date:   Tue, 19 Feb 2019 23:24:21 +0000
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Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:

> In fact if you take care to use a path that starts with '/' the normal
> dirfd based operations work just fine.

If the path starts with '/', dirfd is ignored.  And there's an error in my
patch description - it should be:

 	mkdirat(cfd, "fred", 0755);

David