Hi,
Some years ago, we did introduce a method to POSIX that
allows to open a directory file in a mode that does not
require read permission. This is needed in order to make
openat(fd, name, flag)
usable to implement a "chdir" replacement for threads and
in order to allow opent() to be used for infinite path name lenghts.
Some years passed since then but Solaris still does not implement
fd = open("somedir", O_SEARCH|O_DIRECTORY);
we currently need read access to a directory, as Solaris does not implement
O_SEARCH. If there is a directory with permission 0111:
d--x--x--x 2 user group 117 Apr 10 23:25 somedir
we currently cannot use openat() as there is currently no way to open(2)
"somedir".
Is there hope that this feature will appear on Solaris soon?
Jörg
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