On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 06:12:48PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: > I'm not sure where you're disagreeing with me. open of procfs symlinks > does not resolve the symlink and open the resulting pathname. They are > "magic symlinks" which are bound to the inode of the open file. I > don't see why this action, which is already special for magic > symlinks, can't check a flag on the magic symlink and possibly close > the corresponding file descriptor as part of its action. _What_ action? ->follow_link()? As in "the same thing that e.g. stat(2) would trigger"? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html