Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:56:42 +0100 | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH man-pages 3/3] open.2: describe O_BENEATH flag |
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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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