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Re: [PATCH] Linux: Work around kernel bugs in chmod on /proc/self/fd paths
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 17:48:10 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux: Work around kernel bugs in chmod on /proc/self/fd paths
- References: <87sgjfd04p.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>
* Florian Weimer:
> It appears that the ability to change symbolic link modes through such
> paths is unintended. On several file systems, the operation fails with
> EOPNOTSUPP, even though the symbolic link permissions are updated.
> The expected behavior is a failure to update the permissions, without
> file system changes.
Adhemerval, you wanted to see this fixed quickly?
Thanks,
Florian