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SubjectRe: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3]
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:39:07PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:

> > Is there anything else where the file descriptor's access mode allows
> > doing things on Linux, but the standard requires a permissions check
> > each time?
>
> Jamie,
>
> I can't think of examples offhand -- but I'm also not quite sure what
> your question is about. Could you say a little more?

"Is anything else equally stupid?", I suspect... AFAICS, behaviour in
question is inherited from futimes(2) in one of the *BSD - nothing to
do about that now (at least 10 years too late). It's rather inconsistent
with a lot of things, starting with "why utimes(2) has weaker requirements
with NULL argument", but we are far too late to fix that.


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