On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:06, Miklos Szeredi<miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is it available online somewhere? If not, could you please post the > relevant parts? The OpenGroup publishes the man pages. Here is what google finds: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html > I suspect they are not quite what we want (both of them requring > MAY_EXEC on file, no?) No that's the differences between O_EXEC and O_SEARCH. We deliberately introduced two different names even though some OSes might implement it using the same flag and even though in both cases irritatingly the x permission bit is used. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html