On 04/13/13 04:17, Geoffrey Thomas wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> When O_PATH is specified in flags, flag bits other than >> O_DIRECTORY and O_NOFOLLOW are ignored. > > We are told elsewhere in this man page that O_DIRECTORY "should not be > used outside of the implementation of opendir(3)". Is O_PATH an exception > to this? It seems like the implementation makes special accomodation for > O_DIRECTORY, but opendir(3) is not going to use O_PATH. > > (What's the reasoning behind the rule against O_DIRECTORY in the general > case, anyway?) That text is ancient, and I guess it was written at a time when it was presumed that opendir(3) would/should be the only user of O_DIRECTORY. Nowadays, I'd say the text is obsolete, among other things for the reason that you note. I've simply removed that text. Thanks for pointing it out. Cheers, Michael -- 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
