From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: O_NOATIME and files in /proc
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:11:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091120221108.1fb1dfcf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091120133651.9df2da80.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:36:51 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:06:29 +0100
> Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at> wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Is there a specific reason that open can not open files (at
> > least /proc/noatime and /proc/cpuinfo) under /proc with NO_ATIME as the
> > following program shows:
Andreww: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/6/14/184 seems to explain the origin
of this. To follow it further you'd need to discuss it with Ulrich I
imagine and see why glibc expected that behaviour and in turn where it
came from and what security or similar concerns were anticipated.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-20 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-17 17:06 Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-11-20 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-20 22:11 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-11-30 10:36 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
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