Re: O_NOATIME and files in /proc

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:36:51 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:06:29 +0100
> Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > Is there a specific reason that open can not open files (at
> > least /proc/noatime and /proc/cpuinfo) under /proc with NO_ATIME as the
> > following program shows:

Andreww: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/6/14/184 seems to explain the origin
of this. To follow it further you'd need to discuss it with Ulrich I
imagine and see why glibc expected that behaviour and in turn where it
came from and what security or similar concerns were anticipated.

Alan
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