Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jul 2014 05:51:38 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/11] fs: add O_BENEATH_ONLY flag to openat(2) |
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 01:48:27PM +0100, Meredydd Luff wrote: > How would that work? The directory beneath which openat is looking is > conveyed in the dfd argument itself. If I'm understanding this right, > you'd have to pass a different value for "open relative to fd#5" and > "open relative to fd#5, but beneath it only", which doesn't sound > hugely elegant to me.
Yeah, it won't work for an explicit directory - I was thinking of working relative to $CWD.
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