From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aviro@redhat.com,
drepper@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org, sds@tycho.nsa.gov,
jmorris@namei.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] correct flags to f_mode conversion in __dentry_open
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:45:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080317104537.GA32546@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080315215952.GB18676@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 05:59:52PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > does 11 really mean and should it really always be mapped to (FMODE_READ
> > | FMODE_WRITE) or should it continue to get mapped to 'no permission?'
>
> We've always mapped 3 to "no permission" to read or write. It's a linuxism
I've tripped over this recently aswell. It would for sure be useful
to add a sumbolic O_FOO constant for this magic value '3' and document
it in the manpage.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-17 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-12 18:25 Eric Paris
2008-03-12 18:34 ` Al Viro
2008-03-12 18:41 ` Eric Paris
2008-03-12 18:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-15 21:59 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-15 22:00 ` Alexander Viro
2008-03-17 10:45 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-05-21 17:54 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-05-22 2:10 ` James Morris
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