Hi, The below patches implement a 4 argument version of fchmodat (fchmodat4) that has a flag argument, as specified by POSIX. This is needed to implement a proper glibc wrapper. fchmodat4 supports the same two flags as fchownat: AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW and AT_EMPTY_PATH. Besides the POSIX-compliance, this patch will make it possible to ensure, in a race-free way, that you do not follow symlinks when chmodding. Previously, you could open a file with O_NOFOLLOW and fchmod it, but this only worked if you had read or write permissions on the file. Now you can open the file with O_PATH|O_NOFOLLOW and do fchmodat with AT_EMPTY_PATH. Could this patch be applied? Any feedback is welcome. Cheers, Andrew -- 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
