On 13 August 2015 at 19:38, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:32 AM, David Drysdale <drysdale@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Signed-off-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@xxxxxxxxxx> > > What's the behavior wrt fcntl(F_GETFL, etc)? I would presume that O_BENEATH is one of the so-called "file creation flags". See this paragraph of the DESCRIPTION: In addition, zero or more file creation flags and file status flags can be bitwise-or'd in flags. The file creation flags are O_CLOEXEC, O_CREAT, O_DIRECTORY, O_EXCL, O_NOCTTY, O_NOFOLLOW, O_TMPFILE, O_TRUNC, and O_TTY_INIT. The file status flags are all of the remaining flags listed below. The distinction between these two groups of flags is that the file status flags can be retrieved and (in some cases) modified; see fcntl(2) for details. David, presuming this is correct (I can't see how O_BENEATH could be a "file *status* flag"), your patch should also add O_BENEATH to the list in that paragraph. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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