* Kees Cook: > I think I misunderstood what you meant (Mickaël got me sorted out > now). If O_EXEC is already meant to be "EXEC and _not_ READ nor WRITE", > then yes, this new flag can't be O_EXEC. I was reading the glibc > documentation (which treats it as a permission bit flag, not POSIX, > which treats it as a complete mode description). I see. I think this part of the manual is actually very Hurd-specific (before the O_ACCMODE description). I'll see if I can make this clearer in the markup. Thanks, Florian