On 2026-03-30, Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks sane to me. Can this be merged apart from the rest of the series? > It doesn't seem like the transitive stuff is dependent on this.
No it isn't. I mentioned this in another mail but my thinking from a long time ago was that we should harden these re-open paths if we want to fully support O_EMPTYPATH -- but we already allow all of this stuff today so we might as well merge this thing and make everyone's lives easier. The transitive stuff also needs a lot more work IMHO, and I suspect the full version is going to be a hard sell. My only comment is that I would like this to be usable in open() as it is one of the very few cases of an O_* flag that is actually backwards compatible with all of the brokenness of open() and the systemd folks would probably want to use it (they can't use openat2() yet). -- Aleksa Sarai https://www.cyphar.com/
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