On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 04:15:49PM +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > Hi, > > I was asked if we can add this patch to our kernel in Fedora. > > It's for ability to open a directory with execute permission but > without read permission. > > Michal > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Michal, can you ask the Fedora Linux kernel people to backport this > patch, please (this is going to be needed by both ksh93 and KDE4)? > > Josh It's already in 3.4.5, which we pushed to F16 and F17 yesterday. commit 881aa809b005753a64fe9409c1d229912cc925ce Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Jul 7 10:17:00 2012 -0700 vfs: make O_PATH file descriptors usable for 'fchdir()' commit 332a2e1244bd08b9e3ecd378028513396a004a24 upstream. [jwboyer@zod linux-2.6]$ git describe --contains 881aa809b005753a64fe9409c1d229912cc925ce v3.4.5~69 [jwboyer@zod linux-2.6]$ josh _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel