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Commit 332a2e12 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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vfs: make O_PATH file descriptors usable for 'fchdir()'



We already use them for openat() and friends, but fchdir() also wants to
be able to use O_PATH file descriptors.  This should make it comparable
to the O_SEARCH of Solaris.  In particular, O_PATH allows you to access
(not-quite-open) a directory you don't have read persmission to, only
execute permission.

Noticed during development of multithread support for ksh93.

Reported-by: default avatarольга крыжановская <olga.kryzhanovska@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org    # O_PATH introduced in 3.0+
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent cd6407fe
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