Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:08:50 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3] |
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On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:01:35PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > 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. > > To be fair, having a writable file descriptor only lets you change the > mtime to "now", and having a readable file descriptor only lets you > change the atime to "now". > > Changing the times _in general_ can be seen as over-reaching those > capabilities and arguably justifies more strict checks.
Which is what all questions about writability apply only to NULL case anyway...
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