Re: [PATCH] mq_open() honor leading slash

[Manfred Spraul]

Chris Wright wrote:

> Patch below simply eats all leading slashes before passing name to
> lookup_one_len() in mq_open() and mq_unlink().
>  
Why should we do that in kernel space?
The kernel interface is "no slash at all". User space can add a SuS 
compatible layer on top of the kernel interface (i.e. fail with -EINVAL 
if the first character is not a /, then skip the slash and pass "name+1" 
to sys_mq_open()).

--
   Manfred

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