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Message-Id: <1326419626-22568-1-git-send-email-agwa@andrewayer.name>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:53:44 -0800
From: Andrew Ayer <agwa@...rewayer.name>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2 RESEND] POSIX-compliant version of fchmodat with flag argument
Hi,
The below patches implement a 4 argument version of fchmodat (fchmodat4)
that has a flag argument, as specified by POSIX. This is needed to
implement a proper glibc wrapper.
fchmodat4 supports the same two flags as fchownat: AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
and AT_EMPTY_PATH.
Besides the POSIX-compliance, this patch will make it possible to
ensure, in a race-free way, that you do not follow symlinks when
chmodding. Previously, you could open a file with O_NOFOLLOW and fchmod
it, but this only worked if you had read or write permissions on the
file. Now you can open the file with O_PATH|O_NOFOLLOW and do fchmodat
with AT_EMPTY_PATH.
Could this patch be applied? Any feedback is welcome.
Cheers,
Andrew
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