linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] O_NOACC: open without any access

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Message-ID: <a36005b50906241134x2f403213lb89e23d4c319a635@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:34:01 -0700
From:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	adilger@....com, dhowells@...hat.com, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] O_NOACC: open without any access

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:06, Miklos Szeredi<miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
> Is it available online somewhere?  If not, could you please post the
> relevant parts?

The OpenGroup publishes the man pages.  Here is what google finds:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html



> I suspect they are not quite what we want (both of them requring
> MAY_EXEC on file, no?)

No that's the differences between O_EXEC and O_SEARCH.  We
deliberately introduced two different names even though some OSes
might implement it using the same flag and even though in both cases
irritatingly the x permission bit is used.
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