2014/1/20 Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@xxxxxxxxx>: >> You can try to use O_PATH flag. It doesn't give you a delete access >> but should be ok because further deleting will be done without file >> descriptor -- through unlink syscall. > > Ok, I did not know about O_PATH. Thanks for that! > > So I do an open with O_PATH. How do I then make sure that > nobody else has a O_DENYDELETE set without doing the unlink > itself? It's not possible with the current API to do it through open syscall. Another possibility is to look at /proc/locks. But I think we really need O_DELETE flag that will force a file to be removed on close - we will be able to do O_DENYDELETE checks atomically. -- Best regards, Pavel Shilovsky. -- 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
