On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, Rich Felker wrote: > Of course, the userspace fallback code could detect such failures and > retry with O_RDONLY, so maybe it's not such a big issue. With a > working O_PATH, open should never fail with EISDIR or EACCES, so these > errors could be used as a condition to retry. Surely you'll still get EACCES when some component in the specified path, not the last one, lacks search permission? -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
