On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:39:07PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > Is there anything else where the file descriptor's access mode allows > > doing things on Linux, but the standard requires a permissions check > > each time? > > Jamie, > > I can't think of examples offhand -- but I'm also not quite sure what > your question is about. Could you say a little more? "Is anything else equally stupid?", I suspect... AFAICS, behaviour in question is inherited from futimes(2) in one of the *BSD - nothing to do about that now (at least 10 years too late). It's rather inconsistent with a lot of things, starting with "why utimes(2) has weaker requirements with NULL argument", but we are far too late to fix that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
