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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] Add new open(2) flag - O_EMPTY_PATH
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 14:01:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b39cf528148470c934fb5823b35e9d5@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221231235618.117201-1-ahamza@ixsystems.com>

From: Ameer Hamza
> Sent: 31 December 2022 23:56
> 
> This patch adds a new flag O_EMPTY_PATH that allows openat and open
> system calls to open a file referenced by fd if the path is empty,
> and it is very similar to the FreeBSD O_EMPTY_PATH flag. This can be
> beneficial in some cases since it would avoid having to grant /proc
> access to things like samba containers for reopening files to change
> flags in a race-free way.
> 

But what does it do?
(Apart from add code to a common kernel code path.)

	David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-02 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-28 16:02 [PATCH] Add new open(2) flag - O_EMPTY_PATH Ameer Hamza
2022-12-31  0:15 ` kernel test robot
2022-12-31 23:56   ` [PATCH v2] " Ameer Hamza
2023-01-01 11:16     ` kernel test robot
2023-01-01 15:37       ` [PATCH v3] " Ameer Hamza
2023-01-02 14:01     ` David Laight [this message]
2023-01-02 14:35       ` [PATCH v2] " Ameer Hamza
2023-01-06  9:21         ` David Laight
2023-01-06 13:06 ` [PATCH] " Christian Brauner
2023-04-19  1:15   ` Ameer Hamza
     [not found]     ` <7454A798-1277-411A-853C-635B33439029@gmail.com>
2023-04-19  9:18       ` Christian Brauner
2023-04-19 21:29     ` David Laight
2023-04-26 13:10       ` Andrew Walker

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