Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:26:55 +0000 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] flags parameter for linkat |
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:10:22AM -0500, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> I'm currently at the POSIX meeting and one thing covered was the > incompatibility of Linux's link() with the POSIX definition. The > difference is the treatment of symbolic links in the destination > name. Linux does not follow symlinks, POSIX requires it does. > > Even somebody thinks this is a good default behavior we cannot > change this because it would break the ABI. But the fact remains > that some application might want this behavior. > > We have one chance to help implementing this without breaking the > behavior. For this we could use the new linkat interface which > would need a new flags parameter. If the new parameter is > AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW the new behavior could be invoked. > > I do not want to introduce such a patch now. But we could add the > parameter now, just don't use it. The patch below would do this. > Can we get this late patch applied before the release more or less > fixes the syscall API?
The number of arguments changes, so below patch would be needed for 32-bit MIPS.
Ralf
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/scall32-o32.S b/arch/mips/kernel/scall32-o32.S index d83e033..2f2dc54 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/scall32-o32.S +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/scall32-o32.S @@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ einval: li v0, -EINVAL sys sys_fstatat64 4 sys sys_unlinkat 3 sys sys_renameat 4 /* 4295 */ - sys sys_linkat 4 + sys sys_linkat 5 sys sys_symlinkat 3 sys sys_readlinkat 4 sys sys_fchmodat 3 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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