The curious case of O_DIRECTORY|O_CREAT
The curious case of O_DIRECTORY|O_CREAT
Posted Mar 28, 2023 3:53 UTC (Tue) by brauner (subscriber, #109349)In reply to: The curious case of O_DIRECTORY|O_CREAT by josh
Parent article: The curious case of O_DIRECTORY|O_CREAT
I already proposed that when I fixed the bug:
"(As a sidenote, posix made an interpretation change a long time ago to
at least allow for O_DIRECTORY | O_CREAT to create a directory (see [3]).
But that's a whole different can of worms and I haven't spent any
thoughts even on feasibility. And even if we should probably get through
a couple of kernels with O_DIRECTORY | O_CREAT failing with EINVAL first.)"
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