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Re: [PATCHv4 man-pages 3/3] open.2: describe O_BENEATH flag

From David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCHv4 man-pages 3/3] open.2: describe O_BENEATH flag
Date 2015-08-14 17:40 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:29 AM, David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
>> <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 13 August 2015 at 19:38, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:32 AM, David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> wrote:
>>>>> Signed-off-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
>>>>
>>>> What's the behavior wrt fcntl(F_GETFL, etc)?
>>>
>>> I would presume that O_BENEATH is one of the so-called "file creation
>>> flags". See this paragraph of the DESCRIPTION:
>>>
>>>        In addition, zero or more file creation  flags  and  file  status
>>>        flags  can be bitwise-or'd in flags.  The file creation flags are
>>>        O_CLOEXEC, O_CREAT, O_DIRECTORY,  O_EXCL,  O_NOCTTY,  O_NOFOLLOW,
>>>        O_TMPFILE,  O_TRUNC,  and  O_TTY_INIT.  The file status flags are
>>>        all of the remaining flags listed below.  The distinction between
>>>        these  two  groups  of flags is that the file status flags can be
>>>        retrieved and (in some cases) modified; see fcntl(2) for details.
>>>
>>> David, presuming this is correct (I can't see how O_BENEATH could be a
>>> "file *status* flag"), your patch should also add O_BENEATH to the
>>> list in that paragraph.
>>
>> Yeah, O_BENEATH makes sense as a file creation flag; I'll add it
>> to that list -- thanks for spotting.
>
> Should there be a test that you can't clear O_BENEATH with F_SETFL?
>
> --Andy

I'll add a test that fcntl(F_SETFL) silently ignores the file creation flags,
including O_BENEATH.
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[PATCHv4 0/3] fs: add O_BENEATH flag to openat(2) David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> - 2015-08-13 11:40 +0200
  [PATCHv4 1/3] fs: add O_BENEATH flag to openat(2) David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> - 2015-08-13 11:40 +0200
  [PATCHv4 man-pages 3/3] open.2: describe O_BENEATH flag David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> - 2015-08-13 11:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCHv4 man-pages 3/3] open.2: describe O_BENEATH flag Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-13 19:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCHv4 man-pages 3/3] open.2: describe O_BENEATH flag "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 07:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCHv4 man-pages 3/3] open.2: describe O_BENEATH flag David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> - 2015-08-14 11:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCHv4 man-pages 3/3] open.2: describe O_BENEATH flag Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-14 16:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCHv4 man-pages 3/3] open.2: describe O_BENEATH flag David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> - 2015-08-14 17:40 +0200
  [PATCHv4 2/3] selftests: Add test of O_BENEATH & openat(2) David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> - 2015-08-13 11:40 +0200

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