Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:11:45 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] open: fix O_DIRECTORY | O_CREAT |
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On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 7:03 AM Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> wrote: > > EINVAL ist keinmal: This contains the changes to make O_DIRECTORY when > specified together with O_CREAT an invalid request.
Ok, that intro makes little sense unless you speak German ;)
I cut the explanation down radically, it's there in the original commit, I don't think we need quite this much detail for a merge commit for a change that is ~10 lines of code and not _that_ complex.
I did keep this link:
> This has also been covered in > > https://lwn.net/Articles/926782/ > > which should be publicly available by now. It provides an excellent > summary of the discussion.
although it's behind a paywall, which isn't optimal.
Linus
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