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SubjectRe: [PATCH man-pages 3/3] open.2: describe O_BENEATH flag
On 03/11/2014 12:48, David Drysdale wrote:
> +.I pathname
> +is beneath the current working directory (for
> +.BR open (2))
> +or the
> +.I dirfd
> +(for
> +.BR openat (2)).
> +If the
> +.I pathname
> +is absolute or contains a path component of "..", the
> +.BR open ()
> +fails with the error
> +.BR EACCES.
> +This occurs even if ".." path component would not actually
> +escape the original directory; for example, a
> +.I pathname
> +of "subdir/../filename" would be rejected.
> +Path components that are symbolic links to absolute paths, or that are
> +relative paths containing a ".." component, will also cause the
> +.BR open ()
> +operation to fail with the error
> +.BR EACCES.

I wonder if EPERM is more appropriate than EACCES.

Apart from this, the patches look fine.

Paolo


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