Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Mon, 3 Nov 2014 09:06:30 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: allow open(dir, O_TMPFILE|..., 0) with mode 0 |
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On Nov 3, 2014 12:34 AM, "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:53:09AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote: > > > > > > Does the patch in this thread not fix that? > > > > It should. Modulo the glibc problem that makes it hard to actually set > > the mode properly. > > That doesn't help because we explicitly reject O_RDONLY when combined > with O_TMPFILE.
I think I'm missing something. How is an O_RDONLY temporary file useful? Wouldn't you want an O_RDWR tempfile with mode 0400 or something like that?
--Andy
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