> Von: NeilBrown [mailto:neilb@xxxxxxx] > > On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:39:09 +0000 Fiedler Roman > <Roman.Fiedler@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > It seems that the open syscall is not POSIX-compliant when using both > > O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY. This was discussed in [1] with a reference to the > POSIX > > documentation. > > Given that O_DIRECTORY is not part of POSIX, I don't think that > POSIX-compliance is an issue here. That's strange. Shouldn't [1] be the current 2013 standard with O_DIRECTORY for open on page 1380? If not, all clear. If yes, does Linux adhere to the older version, e.g. 2008 instead? > However the implementation does seem to differ from the Linux > documentation. > > I suggest you submit a patch to the manpages project to change > > If pathname is not a directory > > to > > If pathname exists and is not a directory > > That should fix the problem. When [1] is not the standard to be applied, we are done here. If yes, it could be decided if the clarifications from [2] (link included in discussion [3] from previous message) are already relevant. > [Snip] [1] http://cfajohnson.com/pdf/Portable_Operating_System_Interface-POSIX.pdf [2] http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=847 [3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/26/10
Attachment:
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
