On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 05:54:24PM +0100, David Drysdale wrote: > > How is this implemented in FreeBSD? I can't find any references to > > O_BENEATH_ONLY except for your patchset. > > FreeBSD have the relative-only behaviour for openat() relative to a > Capsicum capability dfd [1], and for a process in capability-mode [2], > but they don't have the O_BENEATH_ONLY as a separately-accessible > openat() flag. However, it seemed like a more widely useful idea so > separating it out was suggested.
In that case we should make sure to use the same name and semantics for it. As far as I'm concerned I'd prefer a less clumsy name like O_BENEATH. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
