Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:24:12 +0200 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mq_open() honor leading slash |
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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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