Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: Tighten up linkat(..., AT_EMPTY_PATH)

[Al Viro]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:57:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Yes. I think we should do this, but I think we should also look at
> what _other_ LOOKUP_xyz we should do for the /proc case.
> 
> For the read-only fd case, we should have a LOOKUP_WRITE flag, and
> return -EPERM if an operation is a write, and we terminate in that
> LAST_BIND case.
> 
> That would catch the truncate() case, but also the "open a read-only
> fd for write or O_TRUNC" case.
> 
> Anything else? What other path operations matter that follow links
> than truncate(), link() and open()?

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