Hi!A recent commit 44a3b87444058b2cb055092cdebc63858707bf66 allows utimensat() to be called on O_PATH opened handles.
If utimensat() is allowed, why isn't fchmod()? What's the high level rationale here that I'm missing? Why is this not documented in man openat.2?
From man openat.2
O_PATH (since Linux 2.6.39)
Obtain a file descriptor that can be used for two purposes:
to indicate a location in the filesystem tree and to perform
operations that act purely at the file descriptor level. The
file itself is not opened, and other file operations (e.g.,
read(2), write(2), fchmod(2), fchown(2), fgetxattr(2),
ioctl(2), mmap(2)) fail with the error EBADF.
...
My understanding of which operations are allowed on file handles opened
with O_PATH was that generally modifying operations would not be
allowed, but only read access to inode data.
Can someone please help me to make sense of this? Thanks a lot! -slow
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