On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/07/2013 07:31 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> O_TMPFILE is new in Linux 3.11 > > Thanks, Andy. I've applied your patch. I also added the following > errors under ERRORS. Do they look okay to you? > > EINVAL O_TMPFILE was specified in flags, but neither O_WRONLY > nor O_RDWR was specified. > > EISDIR O_TMPFILE and one of O_WRONLY or O_RDWR were specified > in flags, but this kernel version does not provide the > O_TMPFILE functionality. I suspect that EISDIR only happens if the directory exists and is accessible (matching the flags). Otherwise EACCES and ENOENT sound plausible. Sigh. Why wasn't this implemented as a brand new syscall? --Andy -- 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