Re: [RFC] O_NOACC: open without any access

[Ulrich Drepper]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:06, Miklos Szeredi<miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is it available online somewhere? ÂIf not, could you please post the
> relevant parts?

The OpenGroup publishes the man pages.  Here is what google finds:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html



> I suspect they are not quite what we want (both of them requring
> MAY_EXEC on file, no?)

No that's the differences between O_EXEC and O_SEARCH.  We
deliberately introduced two different names even though some OSes
might implement it using the same flag and even though in both cases
irritatingly the x permission bit is used.
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