On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 13 August 2015 at 19:38, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:32 AM, David Drysdale <drysdale@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Signed-off-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> What's the behavior wrt fcntl(F_GETFL, etc)? > > I would presume that O_BENEATH is one of the so-called "file creation > flags". See this paragraph of the DESCRIPTION: > > In addition, zero or more file creation flags and file status > flags can be bitwise-or'd in flags. The file creation flags are > O_CLOEXEC, O_CREAT, O_DIRECTORY, O_EXCL, O_NOCTTY, O_NOFOLLOW, > O_TMPFILE, O_TRUNC, and O_TTY_INIT. The file status flags are > all of the remaining flags listed below. The distinction between > these two groups of flags is that the file status flags can be > retrieved and (in some cases) modified; see fcntl(2) for details. > > David, presuming this is correct (I can't see how O_BENEATH could be a > "file *status* flag"), your patch should also add O_BENEATH to the > list in that paragraph. Yeah, O_BENEATH makes sense as a file creation flag; I'll add it to that list -- thanks for spotting. > Cheers, > > Michael > > > > -- > Michael Kerrisk > Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ > Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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