On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:57:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yes. I think we should do this, but I think we should also look at > what _other_ LOOKUP_xyz we should do for the /proc case. > > For the read-only fd case, we should have a LOOKUP_WRITE flag, and > return -EPERM if an operation is a write, and we terminate in that > LAST_BIND case. > > That would catch the truncate() case, but also the "open a read-only > fd for write or O_TRUNC" case. > > Anything else? What other path operations matter that follow links > than truncate(), link() and open()? Timestamp updates, chmod/chown, xattr mess... -- 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
