From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751909AbWG0SOV (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:14:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751654AbWG0SOV (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:14:21 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:35425 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751909AbWG0SOS (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:14:18 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hxOVdMZ38ga90bDxvDrJEc4QQa90UpD+JsA0MIQFoPy5OnaUvz4UJtYXGDEatJ3FtM6bgiN9yKoartpfiJUN0tGgP9qBJgakwd9W5Lb+E6K5kPXVh5i9BCoESQ7NA8ptxlf29MyEhpVzzCH4Bs4GmrPErU14P+2t4uLFVVz/m2s= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:14:17 -0700 From: "Joshua Hudson" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: O_CAREFUL flag to disable open() side effects In-Reply-To: <44C8FFFE.3010402@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1154021616.13509.68.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44C8F8E3.1070306@zytor.com> <1154023516.13509.72.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44C8FFFE.3010402@zytor.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Or say make O_NONE able to open symbolic links (for fcalls such as fchown/fchmod/fstat). I would also suggest that no permission bits be requred to open a file with O_NONE, but that might be a very bad idea.