Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758284AbZJHN1n (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2009 09:27:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758262AbZJHN1m (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2009 09:27:42 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:33046 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758259AbZJHN1m (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2009 09:27:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:26:36 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, dhowells@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org, adilger@sun.com, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, drepper@gmail.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: new O_NODE open flag Message-ID: <20091008132636.GA29691@shareable.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 773 Lines: 24 Miklos Szeredi wrote: > There's been a fair amount of interest in the concept, but less actual > review of the details. > > Changes from the last posting: > > - make fchmod() fail on symlinks fchmodat(2) says: AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW If pathname is a symbolic link, do not dereference it: instead operate on the link itself. This flag is not currently implemented. If the flag were implemented, it would make sense for fchmod() on a symlink to succeed, wouldn't it? -- Jamie -- 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/