Re: [RFC PATCH v8 0/3] Add support for AT_INTERPRETED (was O_MAYEXEC)

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On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 09:59:53AM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This height patch series rework the previous O_MAYEXEC series by not
> adding a new flag to openat2(2) but to faccessat2(2) instead.  As
> suggested, this enables to perform the access check on a file descriptor
> instead of on a file path (while opening it).  This may require two
> checks (one on open and then with faccessat2) but it is a more generic
> approach [8].

Again, why is that folded into lookup/open/whatnot, rather than being
an operation applied to a file (e.g. O_PATH one)?



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