From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: add fchmodat2 syscall
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 07:57:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200911065733.GA31579@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200910170256.GK3265@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 01:02:56PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> Would you be happy with a pair of patches where the first blocks chmod
> of symlinks in chmod_common and the second adds the syscall with
> flags? I think this is a clearly understandable fix, but it does
> eliminate the ability to *fix* link access modes that have been set to
> ridiculous values (note: I don't think it really matters since the
> modes don't do anything anyway) in the past.
I'd be much happier with that, yes.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-11 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-10 14:23 [PATCH] vfs: add fchmodat2 syscall Rich Felker
2020-09-10 15:18 ` Al Viro
2020-09-10 15:45 ` Rich Felker
2020-09-10 15:23 ` David Laight
2020-09-10 16:16 ` Greg KH
2020-09-10 16:35 ` Rich Felker
2020-09-10 16:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-10 16:39 ` Rich Felker
2020-09-10 16:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-10 17:02 ` Rich Felker
2020-09-11 6:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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