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On Jan 20 14:57, Ken Brown wrote: > On 1/20/2020 4:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 17 16:10, Ken Brown wrote: > >> Currently, opening a symlink with O_NOFOLLOW fails with ELOOP. > >> Following Linux, the first patch in this series allows the call to > >> succeed if O_PATH is also specified. > >> > >> According to the Linux man page for open(2), "the call returns a file > >> descriptor referring to the symbolic link. This file descriptor can > >> be used as the dirfd argument in calls to fchownat(2), fstatat(2), > >> linkat(2), and readlinkat(2) with an empty pathname to have the calls > >> operate on the symbolic link." > >> > >> The second patch achieves this for readlinkat. The third patch does > >> this for fstatat and fchownat by adding support for the AT_EMPTY_PATH > >> flag. Nothing needs to be done for linkat, which already supports the > >> AT_EMPTY_PATH flag. > >> > >> > >> Ken Brown (4): > >> Cygwin: allow opening a symlink with O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW > >> Cygwin: readlinkat: allow pathname to be empty > >> Cygwin: fstatat, fchownat: support the AT_EMPTY_PATH flag > >> Cygwin: document recent changes > >> > >> winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.3 | 19 +++++++++-- > >> winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > >> winsup/doc/new-features.xml | 19 +++++++++++ > >> 3 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) > > > > This looks good to me. Please push. I just wonder if this isn't > > new feature enough to bump the Cygwin version to 3.2... > > Maybe. You're in a better position to judge this than I am. If you decide to > do it, I'll tweak the documentation accordingly. I'm not sure yet. Just push as is for now. Tweaking the docs for 3.2 is trivial. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer
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