On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is an experiment to see if we can get nice semantics for all syscalls > that either follow symlinks or allow AT_EMPTY_PATH without jumping through > enormous hoops. This converts truncate (although you can't tell using > truncate from coreutils, because it actually uses open + ftruncate). So this seems *way* too complex. I'd much rather see "nd->flags" get a LOOKUP_READONLY flag, for example, that gets set by proc_pid_follow_link() when it hits a read-only file descriptor (and gets cleared by other lookups). Wouldn't that be *much* more straightforward? Linus -- 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